Temor y Curación en la Ciudad Global (Spanish Edition)

A lot is being written on new walls which cut across our societies in the era of globalization. Silvia Vega-Llona's book provides something different: a LIVED EXPERIENCE of these walls and divisions in today's New York. We do not only learn facts about the divisions, we learn what does it mean to be AFFECTED by them. Furthermore, her rendering of the lived experience is far from the fashionable anti-theorist notion according to which all we can do is narrate our predicament - in the best traditon of dialectical historiography, Vega-Llona constantly generates explosive short-circuits between experience and its theorization. A book which anyone who doubts the persistence of class antagonisms in our societies HAS to read! Slavoj Zizek