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“I’m Not a Criminal, I’m Underground”: Globalization, Multiculturalism, and the Street-Oriented Countercultures of Urban Guatemala

dc.contributor.authorMohamed, Amir
dc.contributor.chairHodzic, Saida
dc.contributor.committeeMemberVillenas, Sofia A.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSmith, Adam Thomas
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-15T15:51:12Z
dc.date.available2022-09-15T15:51:12Z
dc.date.issued2022-05
dc.description301 pages
dc.description.abstractRecent political economic developments in Guatemala exemplify the broken promises of top-down “globalization” and “multiculturalism,” which have instead produced “global apartheid” (Besteman 2018) and “multicriminalism” (Speed 2016). Youthful countercultural Guatemalans, who call themselves callejeros, engage in their own bottom-up projects of globalization and multiculturalism through their participation in street cultures. Callejeros resist, critique, and enact different forms of violence in the process, sometimes challenging the racist-patriarchal-capitalist status quo, other times reproducing it. My study of callejeros' everyday triumphs and struggles provides insight into the culturally and politically productive capacities of marginalized young adults in cities of the Global South.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/stfc-bp46
dc.identifier.otherMohamed_cornellgrad_0058F_13087
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/cornellgrad:13087
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/111755
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectCrime
dc.subjectGuatemala
dc.subjectViolence
dc.subjectYouth
dc.title“I’m Not a Criminal, I’m Underground”: Globalization, Multiculturalism, and the Street-Oriented Countercultures of Urban Guatemala
dc.typedissertation or thesis
dcterms.licensehttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/59810.2
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy
thesis.degree.namePh. D., Anthropology

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