Reviews
" The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms."--Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change, "Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, The Spectacular City is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level."--Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, " The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. I know of no other account that explores the connections between localism and violence so thoroughly, nor through the lens of performance." Carol Greenhouse, co-editor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change "The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Daniel M. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms."--Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change "Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, The Spectacular City is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level."--Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, "The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. I know of no other account that explores the connections between localism and violence so thoroughly, nor through the lens of performance." Carol Greenhouse, co-editor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change"The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Daniel M. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms."-Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change "Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, The Spectacular City is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level."-Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, "Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, The Spectacular City is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level."-Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, “Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, The Spectacular City is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level.�-Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, “ The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms.�-Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change, " The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms."-Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change
