War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822354932)

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 Gonz疝ez-Iz疽, Jorge Ram Gonz疝ez Ponciano, Greg Grandin, Paul Kobrak, Deborah T. Levenson, Carlota McAllister, Diane M. Nelson, Elizabeth Oglesby, Luis Solano, Irmalicia Vel疽quez Nimatuj, Paula Worby

Author: Carlota McAllister
ISBN-10: 0822354934
ISBN-13: 9780822354932
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2013
Pages: 408
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2014