Although urban violence is most often theorized in relation to marginality, violence affects wealthy and poor in Latin America, albeit in different ways. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork and media coverage of a gruesome turf war in Monterrey, Mexico, this paper illustrates how an increase in violence lead the upper class to “disembed” the municipality of San Pedro from the Monterrey Metropolitan Area, revamp the police, and attempt to create not only a “defended neighborhood,” but an entire “defended city.” Contemporary San Pedro reveals that violence and related fear can prompt not only the fragmentation of urban space into numerous gated communities, but also the simultaneous concentration of urban wealth and public security at a city level. Latin American metropoles call for a reconceptualization of urban violence beyond the margins and a closer examination of the invisible walls enclosing the urban wealthy around the world.

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重新认识全球南方的城市暴力

尽管理论上最常将城市暴力与边缘化相关，但暴力影响拉丁美洲的富人和穷人，尽管方式不同。本文利用定性的田野调查和媒体报道了墨西哥蒙特雷的一场残酷的草皮战争，阐述了暴力事件的增加如何导致上层社会“剥夺”了蒙特雷大都会地区的圣佩德罗自治市，改组警察并试图不仅要创建一个“防御社区”，而且要创建一个整个“防御城市”。当代的圣佩德罗（San Pedro）揭示，暴力和相关的恐惧不仅会促使城市空间分裂成众多封闭的社区，而且还会促使城市财富和公共安全同时集中在城市一级。