The Two Faces of Fear

Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis

Ana Villarreal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-768801-4 (ISBN)

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Over the past two decades, increased criminal and state violence has profoundly transformed everyday life in Mexico. In The Two Faces of Fear, Ana Villarreal draws on two years of qualitative fieldwork conducted during a major turf war in Monterrey, Mexico to trace the far-reaching impact of fear and violence on social ties, daily practices, and everyday spaces. Villarreal brings two seemingly contradictory faces of fear into focus--its ability to both isolate and concentrate people and resources, deepening inequality. While all residents of one of Mexico's largest metropolises confronted new threats, the most privileged leveraged vastly unequal resources to spatially concentrate and defend one municipality more fiercely than the rest. Within this defended city, business, nightlife, and public space thrived at the expense of the greater metropolis. The book puts forth a new approach to the study of emotion and provides tangible evidence of how quickly fear worsens inequality beyond Mexico and the "war on drugs."

Ana Villarreal is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Her main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban inequality, emotions, and violence. Her work has appeared in Sociological Theory, Emotions and Society, City & Community, among other venues.

Chapter 1: Fear as an Everyday Problem
Chapter 2: Ubiquitous Violence
Chapter 3: The Logistics of Fear
Chapter 4: Defending San Pedro
Chapter 5: Restructuring Nightlife
Chapter 6: An Oasis from War
Chapter 7: Fear and Inequality at the Onset of Crises
Appendix: Gaining Distance
Acknowledgments
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Global and Comparative Ethnography
Zusatzinfo	8 b/w photographs
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 239 mm
Gewicht	295 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-768801-2 / 0197688012
ISBN-13	978-0-19-768801-4 / 9780197688014
Zustand	Neuware