The Two Faces of Fear
Violence and Inequality in the Mexican Metropolis
Series: Global and Comparative Ethnography;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 May 2024
- ISBN 9780197688007
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Weight 900 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 b/w photographs 485
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Short description:
In The Two Faces of Fear, Ana Villareal provides an in-depth study of how people live in a high-violence environment, drawing on two years of qualitative fieldwork conducted during a violent turf war in her hometown of Monterrey, Mexico. More broadly, Villareal puts forth a new approach to the study of fear and provides tangible evidence of how quickly fear worsens class, gender, race, and urban inequality beyond Mexico and the "war on drugs."
MoreLong description:
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 metropoles 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 expertly theorizes how fear and danger transform daily routines, simultaneously isolating and regrouping people, through acutely class-determined strategies. This moving ethnography of Monterrey, a wealthy and unequal city that many thought immune to violence, adds crucial nuance and depth to our understanding of the relations between violence, fear, and inequality.
Table of Contents:
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
