The Invisible City: Three Stories About Urban Marginality from San Cristóbal de Las Ca ****************************************************************************************** * Marie Heřmanová ****************************************************************************************** Abstract The so-called Zona Norte on the outskirts of San Cristóbal de Las Casas in the south of Mé a typical “poverty belt” described in the literature on Latin American favelas and slums. populated by Tzotzil- and Tzeltal-speaking people, migrants from the rural communities fro highlands, Zona Norte is, in many ways, a typical example of an informal urban settlement, the stigma usually attached to these places – a lawless, dangerous, no-go zone. The aim of to present three different examples of how this territorial stigmatisation (Wacquant 2008) lived, reconstructed, and deconstructed by three generations of inhabitants in Zona Norte. the stories is the metaphor of “invisibility” or the “invisible city”, which is analysed u from current anthropological literature on urban informality. The article is based on an e ethnographic fieldwork conducted in San Cristóbal de Las Casas between the years 2008–2015 Keywords: urban informality; urban marginality; rural-urban migration; urban poverty; Méxi indigenous people Článek v PDF ke stažení [ URL "LM-1064-version1-hermanova.pdf"] Marie Heřmanová [ URL "LM-1076.html "]