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War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala

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Carlota McAllister and Diane M. Nelson, eds.
2013
Published by: Duke University Press
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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

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

pp. i-vi

Contents

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-xii

Introduction: Aftermath: Harvests of Violence and Histories of the Future

pp. 1-46

Part I. Surveying the Landscape: Histories of the Present

1. Five Hundred Years, Greg Grandin

pp. 49-70

2. Difficult Complementarity: Relations between the Mayan and Revolutionary Movements

pp. 71-92

3. Testimonial Truths and Revolutionary Mysteries

pp. 93-116

Part II. Market Freedoms and Market Forces: The New Biopolitical Economy

4. Development and/as Dispossession: Elite Networks and Extractive Industry in the Franja Transversal del Norte

pp. 119-142

5. "We're No Longer Dealing With Fools": Violence, Labor, and Governance on the South Coast

pp. 143-169

6. "A Dignified Community Where We Can Live": Violence, Law, and Debt in Nueva Cajolá's Struggle for Land

pp. 170-192

Part III. Means Into Ends: Neoliberal Transparency and its Shadows

7. What Happened to the Revolution: Guatemala City's Maras from Life to Death

pp. 195-217

8. The Long War in Colotemango: Guerrilas, Army, and Civil Patrols

pp. 218-240

9. After Lynching

pp. 241-260

10. Labor Contractors To Military Specialists to Development Experts: Marginal Elites and Postwar State Formation

pp. 261-282

Part IV. Whither the Future?: Postwar Aspirations and Identifications

11. 100 Percent Omnilife: Health, Economy, and the End/s of War

pp. 285-306

12. The Shumo Challenge: White Class Privilege and the Post-Race, Post-Genocide Alliances of Cosmopolitanism from Below

pp. 307-329

13. A Generation After the Refugees' Return: Are We There Yet?

pp. 330-352

Works Cited

pp. 353-374

Contributors

pp. 375-380

Index

pp. 381-390
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