War by other means : aftermath in post-genocide Guatemala / edited by Carlota McAllister and Diane M. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McAllister, Carlota, 1969-

Nelson, Diane M., 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guatemala--History--1985-.

Guatemala.

History.

Violence--Guatemala.

Violence.

Physical Description:

390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Between 1960 and 1996, Guatemala's civil war claimed 250,000 lives and displaced one million people. Since the peace accords, Guatemala has struggled to address the legacy of war, genocidal violence against the Maya, and the dismantling of alternative projects for the future. War by Other Means brings together new essays by leading scholars of Guatemala from a range of geographical backgrounds and disciplinary perspectives. Contributors consider a wide range of issues confronting present-day Guatemala: returning refugees, land reform, gang violence, neoliberal economic restructuring, indigenous and women's rights, complex race relations, the politics of memory, and the challenges of sustaining hope. From a sweeping account of Guatemalan elites' centuries-long use of violence to suppress dissent to studies of intimate experiences of complicity and contestation in richly drawn localities, War by Other Means provides a nuanced reckoning of the injustices that made genocide possible and the ongoing attempts to overcome them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Five hundred years / Greg Grandin

Difficult complementarity : relations between the Mayan and revolutionary movements / Santiago Bastos and Manuela Camus

Testimonial truths and revolutionary mysteries / Carlota McAllister

Development and/as dispossession : elite networks and extractive industry in the Franja Transversal del Norte / Luis Solano

"We're no longer dealing with fools" : violence, labor, and governance on the south coast / Elizabeth Oglesby

"A dignified community where we can live" : violence, law, and debt in Nueva Cajolá's struggle for land / Irmalicia Velásquez Nimatuj

What happened to the revolution? : Guatemala City's maras from life to death / Deborah T. Levenson

The long war in Colotenango: guerrillas, army, and civil patrols / Paul Kobrak

After lynching / Jennifer Burrell

Labor contractors to military specialists to development experts : marginal elites and postwar state formation / Matilde González Izás

100 percent omnilife : health, economy, and the end/s of war / Diane M. Nelson

The shumo challenge: white class privilege and the post-race, post-genocide alliances of cosmopolitanism from below / Jorge Ramón González Ponciano

A generation after the refugees' return : are we there yet? / Paula Worby.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822354932

0822354934

9780822355090

0822355094

OCLC:

822532808