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

Recent 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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph. D., Anthropology

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctor of Philosophy

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

Cornell University

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Mohamed, Amir

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Villenas, Sofia A.
• Smith, Adam Thomas

• Crime
• Guatemala
• Violence
• Youth

Statement dc:rights

• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7298/stfc-bp46

Dc Identifier Other

ProQuest Submission ID: 13087
ProQuest Publication ID: 29169146

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.cornell.edu:1813/111755