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The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

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In The Mayan within the Mall, J. T. Way traces the creation of up to date Guatemala from the 1920s to the current through a series of national and international development projects. Way shows that, far from being chronically underdeveloped, this nation of stark contrasts—where shopping malls and multinational corporate headquarters coexist with one of the most Western Hemisphere’s poorest and most violent slums—is the embodiment of globalized capitalism.

Using a wide selection of historical and latest sources, Way explores the a couple of intersections of development and individual life, specializing in the construction of social space through successive waves of land reform, urban planning, and economic policy. His explorations move from Guatemala City’s poorest neighborhoods and informal economies (run predominantly by women) to a countryside still recovering from civil war and anti-Mayan genocide, and so they encompass such artifacts of development as the modernist Pan-American Highway and the postmodern Grand Tikal Futura, a Mayan-themed shopping mall ringed by gated communities and shantytowns. Capitalist development, Way concludes, has dramatically reshaped the country’s physical and social landscapes—engendering poverty, ethnic regionalism, and genocidal violence—and situated Guatemala as a harbinger of globalization’s future.

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