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On Our Own Terms: Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala / Sarah Foss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foss, Sarah, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Guatemala--History--20th century.
- Agriculture.
- Rural development--Guatemala--History--20th century.
- Rural development.
- Community development--Guatemala--History--20th century.
- Community development.
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Economic conditions.
- Indians of Central America.
- Indians of Central America--Guatemala--Government relations.
- Indians of Central America--Race identity--Guatemala.
- Economic assistance, American--Guatemala--History--20th century.
- Economic assistance, American.
- Economic development--Guatemala--Citizen participation.
- Economic development.
- Cold War--Influence.
- Cold War.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 pages) illustrations, map
- Place of Publication:
- The University of North Carolina Press 2022
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press 2022
- Summary:
- During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies evident in today's hemispheric policies. Development became a key form of intervention as government officials and experts from the United States and Latin America believed that development could foster hemispheric solidarity and security. In parts of Latin America, its implementation was especially intricate because recipients of these programs were diverse Indigenous peoples with their own politics, economics, and cultures. Contrary to project planners' expectations, Indigenous beneficiaries were not passive recipients but actively engaged with development interventions and, in the process, redefined racialized ideas about Indigeneity.Sarah Foss illustrates how this process transpired in Cold War Guatemala, spanning democratic revolution, military coups, and genocidal civil war. Drawing on previously unused sources such as oral histories, anthropologists' field notes, military records, municipal and personal archives, and a private photograph collection, Foss analyzes the uses and consequences of development and its relationship to ideas about race from multiple perspectives, emphasizing its historical significance as a form of intervention during the Cold War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890862471
- 9781469670355
- 1469670356
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