Description
Book SynopsisExplores 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.
Trade Review"Human rights scholars and activists will plumb this rich text for insights into the limitations of our legalistic understanding of human rights. Psychologists will find inspiration in the curative aspects of indigenous practices. Researchers will reevaluate how to conduct feminist, postcolonial PAR work. Feminists will rethink our work on identity and activism. And all of us will reach a fuller understanding of the human capacity for resistance and recovery from gross injustices and atrocities."— Psychology of Women Quarterly
"New Books Network - New Books in Genocide Studies" interview with Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes
https://newbooksnetwork.com/a-d-crosby-and-m-b-lykes-in-beyond-repair-mayan-womens-protagonism-in-the-aftermath-of-genocidal-harm-rutgers-up-2019/— New Books Network - New Books in Genocide Studies
"Crosby and Lykes offer readers a unique opportunity to hear the voices of Mayan women who come together around pain and justice, and to learn about their mixed emotions and their experiences of poverty, peril, fear, and resiliency."— Journal of Community Psychology
"Extremely persuasive and admirably clear,
Beyond Repair? emphasizes the need to analyze gender violence through the historical lens of colonialized racial violence and underlines the centrality of the justice constructions and engagements of Mayan women."— Rachel Sieder, editor of Demanding Justice and Security in Latin America
"This deeply researched book follows Mayan women as they search for justice in the aftermath of sexual violence. Using feminist participatory research methods, the authors attend to both suffering and protagonism."— Kimberly Theidon, author of Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
"Highly recommended."— Choice
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Beyond Repair presents a valuable framework in which to understand how broader legal mechanisms can be deployed within transitional justice and human rights approaches."— Human Rights Quarterly
Table of ContentsContents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Documenting Protagonism: “I can fly with large wings”
2 Recounting Protagonism: “No one can take this thorn from my soul”
3 Judicializing Protagonism: “What will the law say?”
4 Repairing Protagonism: “Carrying a heavy load”
5 Accompanying Protagonism: “Facing two directions”
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
