[PDF] Guatemala Return To Violence eBook

Author : Carlota McAllister
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0822377403

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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. Contributors. Santiago Bastos, Jennifer Burrell, Manuela Camus, Matilde González-Izás, Jorge Ramón González Ponciano, Greg Grandin, Paul Kobrak, Deborah T. Levenson, Carlota McAllister, Diane M. Nelson, Elizabeth Oglesby, Luis Solano, Irmalicia Velásquez Nimatuj, Paula Worby

Author : Kristi Anne Stølen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,11 MB
Release : 2007-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812240085

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In this study of Guatemalan peasants rebuilding their lives after years in the crossfire, anthropologist Kristi Anne Stølen examines the dynamics of violence, survival strategies in situations of extreme violence, and social reconstruction in its aftermath.

Author : Jennifer Schirmer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0812200594

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In 1999, the Guatemala truth commission issued its report on human rights violations during Guatemala's thirty-six-year civil war that ended in 1996. The commission, sponsored by the UN, estimates the conflict resulted in 200,000 deaths and disappearances. The commission holds the Guatemalan military responsible for 93 percent of the deaths. In The Guatemalan Military Project, Jennifer Schirmer documents the military's role in human rights violations through a series of extensive interviews striking in their brutal frankness and unique in their first-hand descriptions of the campaign against Guatemala's citizens. High-ranking officers explain in their own words their thoughts and feelings regarding violence, political opposition, national security doctrine, democracy, human rights, and law. Additional interviews with congressional deputies, Guatemalan lawyers, journalists, social scientists, and a former president give a full and balanced account of the Guatemalan power structure and ruling system. With expert analysis of these interviews in the context of cultural, legal, and human rights considerations, The Guatemalan Military Project provides a successful evaluation of the possibilities and processes of conversion from war to peace in Latin America and around the world.

Author : Shelton H. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Civil rights
ISBN :

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Field study of the impact of political violence on rural development and indigenous community life in Guatemala - reports on human rights violations, suppression of the rural area leadership and cooperative movement, aftermath of the seism, etc.; examines impacts on the agricultural sector and food production, health, education, religion and the family; looks at refugees, rural poverty, role of the armed forces and national liberation movements, role of USA and implications for development aid. Photographs, statistical tables.

Author : Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107178479

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Latin America has among the world's highest homicide rates. The author analyzes the illicit organizations, complicit and weak states, and territorial competition that generate today's violent homicidal ecologies.

Author : Patrick Donnell Ball
Publisher : Advancement of Science
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN :

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For more than four decades, the Guatemalan state has regularly used extra-judicial violence to maintain political control in a divided nation. Over time, state terror expanded in both intensity and in the scope of its victims, from selective assassinations of militants in the armed insurgency to an ever-widening attack on members of the political opposition. By the early 1980s, state forces were committing indiscriminate murder against civilians in rural Guatemala.

Author : Cecilia Menjívar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520948416

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Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a different form of suffering—the violence embedded in institutions and in everyday life so familiar and routine that it is often not recognized as such. Rather than painting Guatemala (or even Latin America) as having a cultural propensity for normalizing and accepting violence, Menjívar aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence—profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situations— grounded in women’s experiences. In this way, her study provides a glimpse into the root causes of the increasing wave of feminicide in Guatemala, as well as in other Latin American countries, and offers observations relevant for understanding violence against women around the world today.

Author : Robert M. Carmack
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 22,26 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Guatemala
ISBN : 9780806124599

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"This important and disturbing volume provides ten case histories of recent institutionalized violence and discrimination against the Maya-speaking peoples of Guatemala. The authors... reconstruct events by interpreting oral history, comparing contemporary situations with their knowledge of the recent past, and applying their understanding of complex cultural, economic, and political factors. ...This well-integrated, well-produced book is an important first step in the documentation of one of the major ethnic tragedies of modern times". -- Ethnohistory. "A chilling exposure of a brutal repression that has somehow escaped the headlines". -- Kirkus Reviews.