Dealing with Peace : The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Post-Conflict Neoliberal State / Simon Granovsky-Larsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Granovsky-Larsen, Simon, author.

Series:

Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peasants--Political activity--Guatemala.

Peasants.

Agricultural laborers--Political activity--Guatemala.

Agricultural laborers.

Social movements--Guatemala.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Dealing with Peace presents the struggles of the Guatemalan campesino (peasant) social movement during the country's post-conflict transition from 1996 to the present, focusing on efforts to obtain land and improve livelihoods within a shifting, yet consistently hostile, political-economic environment. With special focus on the relationship between the movement and the neoliberal state, Simon Granovsky-Larsen asks whether the acceptance of neoliberal resources - in this case, support for land access in Guatemala provided by the World Bank-funded Fondo de Tierras - reduces the potential for social movements to continue to work for transformative change. Positioned in contrast to studies warning that social movements cannot maintain their original vision after accepting such support, this book argues that organizations within the Guatemalan campesino movement have engaged strategically with neoliberalism, utilizing available resources to advance visions of social change. Using a wealth of primary data collected over more than a year of fieldwork, it contributes significantly to the study of Guatemalan politics and advances understandings of the grounded operation of neoliberalism. Exploring both the dynamics of a national neoliberal transition and the ways in which these play out within civil society, Dealing with Peace reveals the long-term and often contradictory negotiation of political and economic transitions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables, Figures, and Illustrations

Map: Location of Main Research Sites

Acronyms Used in the Text

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Strategic Engagements with Neoliberalism

2. The Guatemalan Campesino Movement: Organizing through War and Peace

3. Between the Bullet and the Bank: Campesino Access to Land

4. CONIC: A Campesino Organization Apart

5. CCDA: A Revolutionary Enterprise

6. Beyond the Post-Conflict Period

Glossary

List of Interview Participants and Research Sites

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1317-8

1-4875-1316-X

OCLC:

1099434844