This City Belongs to You : A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996 / Heather Vrana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vrana, Heather, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student movements--Guatemala--History--20th century.

Student movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala's only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later persecuted by the government, all while crafting a powerful student nationalism. In no other moment in Guatemalan history has the relationship between the university and the state been so mutable, yet so mutually formative. By showing how the very notion of the middle class in Guatemala emerged from these student movements, this book places an often-marginalized region and period at the center of histories of class, protest, and youth movements and provides an entirely new way to think about the role of universities and student bodies in the formation of liberal democracy throughout Latin America.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: "Do Not Mess with Us!"

1. The Republic of Students, 1942-1952

2. Showcase for Democracy, 1953-1957

3. A Manner of Feeling, 1958-1962

4. Go Forth and Teach All, 1963-1977

5. Combatants for the Common Cause, 1976-1978

6. Student Nationalism without a Government, 1977-1980

Coda: "Ahí van los estudiantes!" 1980-Present

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520965720

0520965728

OCLC:

972640427