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Beyond Repair?: Mayan Women's Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813598963)
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xWinner of the 2021 Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide
Honorable Mention, 2020 CALACS Book Prize Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women's agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q'eqchi', Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women who are seeking truth, justice, and reparation for the violence they experienced during the war, and the women's rights activists, lawyers, psychologists, Mayan rights activists, and researchers who have accompanied them as intermediaries for over a decade. Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes use the concept of "protagonism" to deconstruct dominant psychological discursive constructions of women as "victims," "survivors," "selves," "individuals," and/or "subjects." They argue that at different moments Mayan women have been actively engaged as protagonists in constructivist and discursive performances through which they have narrated new, mobile meanings of "Mayan woman," repositioning themselves at the interstices of multiple communities and in their pursuit of redress for harm suffered.
Author: Alison Crosby,M. Brinton Lykes
ISBN-10: 0813598966
ISBN-13: 9780813598963
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2019
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019
Honorable Mention, 2020 CALACS Book Prize Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women's agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q'eqchi', Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women who are seeking truth, justice, and reparation for the violence they experienced during the war, and the women's rights activists, lawyers, psychologists, Mayan rights activists, and researchers who have accompanied them as intermediaries for over a decade. Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes use the concept of "protagonism" to deconstruct dominant psychological discursive constructions of women as "victims," "survivors," "selves," "individuals," and/or "subjects." They argue that at different moments Mayan women have been actively engaged as protagonists in constructivist and discursive performances through which they have narrated new, mobile meanings of "Mayan woman," repositioning themselves at the interstices of multiple communities and in their pursuit of redress for harm suffered.
Author: Alison Crosby,M. Brinton Lykes
ISBN-10: 0813598966
ISBN-13: 9780813598963
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2019
Pages: 282
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2019
By Alison Crosby
xALISON CROSBY is an associate professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies and the director of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University, Toronto, Canada. M. BRINTON LYKES is a professor of community-cultural psychology and co-director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, in Massachusetts. She is the author or editor of several books, including The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses.
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