... to collective anxieties over the terms of everyday survival and the difficulty of determining just who is in charge. This essay is an ethnography of extorted life, mapping the expanding geographies of extortion in postwar Guatemala to illuminate how this cold-blooded business organizes life at the most intimate...

..., with the strongest networks forming in the postwar countries of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Today a range of security officials train their efforts on a curious loophole in gang membership—Christian conversion as a way out—and by doing so open up new streams of funding and prompt a specialized cadre...

...Kevin Lewis O’Neill Across Guatemala City, Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers warehouse users (often against their will) in the name of salvation. This essay, in response, details how pastors deploy digital media to assess a user’s relative fitness for a Christian life. Of particular interest...

... in Times of War María Victoria Uribe Colombia, along with Peru, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Guatemala, belongs to an unusual group of countries determined to resolve and end an internal armed conflict without abandoning a democratic mode of gov...

... the violence and the intimacy of extortion in Guatemala; through a study of Gezi Park we come to better understand property regimes in Turkey; and we discover how US nuclear workers are certain to experience exposure and why such injuries and harms are both normalized and justified. In the first Forum...

... culture, but in a vastly different register than Arkin’s. O’Neill’s account builds on evidence gathered in Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers in Guatemala City, where digital photographs are used to discern whether an addict has achieved salvation, through a “hermeneutics of life” that proceeds...

... of this involves detailing different techniques of capture, beyond simply naming captives and captors. How do pastors in Guatemala get drug users inside their centers? How do pirates take control of the ship? These are empirical questions attuned to a dialectic between captive and captor. The challenge is to build...

.... Submitted by: Anita Fahringer University of Pennsylvania The Journey* By V.S. Naipaul It stopped at Guatemala City. In the dark airport building - beyond the jagged, mud- colored volcano...

... for the Study of Religion and in the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala and a coeditor of Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Repre...

... in Public Archaeology . Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Kirkpatrick, Graeme. 2013. Computer Games and the Social Imaginary . Malden, MA: Polity. McAllister, Carlota, and Diane M. Nelson, eds. 2013. War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-genocide Guatemala . Durham, NC: Duke University Press...

... experience but about what needs to be thought, the kind of thinking and experiencing worth fighting for in the quest for aesthetic self-respect.” Our issue opens with a provocation. Kevin Lewis O’Neill and Jatin Dua draw on their own research — on a Pentecostal drug rehabilitation center in Guatemala...

.... Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Mandler, Peter. 2013. Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Marotti, William. 2013. Money, Trains...

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... similar to, those of the original disappeared and to what the convention describes as characteristic of the criminal-legal type. In this sense, cases of forced disappearances emerge in other histories, including the ethnic genocides perpetrated in Guatemala in the 1980s, or Bosnia in the 1990s...

...: Peru’s Augusto Leguia presented himself as the divine “Viracocha” to Indian villagers in the 1920s; Guatemala’s Jorge Ubico toured the highlands by motorcycle in the 1930s to dedicate bridges in villages. However, pop- ulist politicians developed a spectacular vulgarity that outshone the old...

... University Press. Nelson, Diane M. 2009. Reckoning: The Ends of War in Guatemala. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Ng, Janet. 2009. Paradigm City: Space, Culture, and Capitalism in Hong Kong. Albany: State University of New York Press. Peleg, Ilan. 2009. The Legacy of George W. Bush’s...

.... Sneath, David, Martin Holbraad, and Mortan Axel Pedersen. 2009 . Technologies of the imagination: An introduction. Ethnos 7 : 5 – 30. Stepputat, Finn. 2003 . Lynching en svøbe for menneskeheden: Kollektiv vold og u/ sikkerhedens politik i Guatemala (Lynching, a scourge for humanity: Collective...

... Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti, El Salvador, and Honduras—arrive (Portes and Stepick 1993 ; Wallerstein 2011 ; Amin 1974 ). Yet it is also Miami's periphery and suburban edge, shaped by “racial banishment” (Roy 2017 ) from downtown, particularly from Black and Haitian neighborhoods, as displaced tenants...

... event occurred in Guatemala City. Children either stolen or bought from poor families or single mothers were ready to be sent to pri- vate US organizations ,supposedly benefactors but actually doing a fine business in the sale of human organs. According to the police report, the price...

... : 223 – 43 . Fassin D. 2013 . Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing . Cambridge : Polity . Fontes A. W. 2016 . “ Extorted Life: Protection Rackets in Guatemala City .” Public Culture 28 , no. 3 : 593 – 616 . Garces C. 2010 . “ The Cross Politics...