Yi-Fu Tuan Geography Lecture Series

Since the end of Latin America’s longest and bloodiest civil war (1960-1996), Guatemala City has become a hotbed of homicidal violence. Maras (transnational gangs) have become the erstwhile emissaries of this new order. Fontes aim is to capture and convey how the specter of out-of-control criminal violence can become utterly entwined with the making of lived and symbolic landscapes, defying every effort to fix it in time and space.