Tegucigolpe: donde se cruzan los caminos, se unen fronteras y divergen las percepciones

Tegucigolpe: donde se cruzan los caminos, se unen fronteras y divergen las percepciones

This article examines the capital of Honduras—Tegucigalpa—focusing on its “twin cities” of Comayagüela and Tegucigalpa, examining the relationships between topographic and socioeconomic exclusion, structural and symbolic violence, and the application of neoliberal policies. It explores the city post...

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Main Authors: Adrienne Pine, David Vivar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes 2011-06-01
Series:Colombia Internacional
Subjects:
FNRP • Giorgio Agamben • state of exception • Naomi Klein • disaster capitalism • Merrill Singer • culture of wealth • Mary Douglas • Nancy Scheper-Hughes • invisible genocide • Michael Taussig • usual terror
Online Access:http://colombiainternacional.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/519/index.php?id=519
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Summary:This article examines the capital of Honduras—Tegucigalpa—focusing on its “twin cities” of Comayagüela and Tegucigalpa, examining the relationships between topographic and socioeconomic exclusion, structural and symbolic violence, and the application of neoliberal policies. It explores the city post-hurricane Mitch and post-coup d’État using historical and ethnographic data to shed light on Tegucigalpa, the troubled political center of a corporatizing State.
ISSN:0121-5612
1960-6004

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