{"product_id":"dealing-with-peace-9781487501433","title":"Dealing with Peace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDealing with Peace \u003c\/em\u003epresents the struggles of the Guatemalan campesino (peasant) social movement during the country’s post-conflict transition from 1996 to the present, focusing on efforts to obtain land and improve livelihoods within a shifting, yet consistently hostile, political-economic environment. With special focus on the relationship between the movement and the neoliberal state, Simon Granovsky-Larsen asks whether the acceptance of neoliberal resources  in this case, support for land access in Guatemala provided by the World Bank-funded \u003ci\u003eFondo de Tierras\u003c\/i\u003e  reduces the potential for social movements to continue to work for transformative change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePositioned in contrast to studies warning that social movements cannot maintain their original vision after accepting such support, this book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eargues that organizations within the Guatemalan campesino movement have engaged strategically with neoliberalism, utilizing available resources to advance visi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Tables, Figures, and Illustrations Map: Location of Main Research Sites Acronyms Acknowledgements   Introduction Dispossession, Violence, and Poverty Positioning the Case Studies: CCDA and CONIC Methodology: Activist Research Amid Violence Overview of the Book   1. Strategic Engagements with Neoliberalism Transitions to and through Neoliberalism Peace, Land, and Neoliberalism Challenging Guatemala’s Neoliberal Peace   2. The Guatemalan Campesino Movement: Organizing through War and Peace From the Ashes of Genocide and Revolution, 1944-1985 The Perils of Peace, 1986-2010 The Guatemalan Campesino Movement Today   3. Between the Bullet and the Bank: Campesino Access to Land The Market Model Agrarian Conflict and Rural Struggle   4. CONIC: An Organization Apart CONIC and Territorial Collectives Victorias III: “We’re screwed but happy” San José La Pasión: “We have to work together”   5. CCDA: A Revolutionary Enterprise CCDA and Café Justicia Salvador Xolhuitz: A Divided Community Don Pancho: “We’re used to giving it our all”   6. Beyond the Post-Conflict Period CONIC and CCDA: Within and Against the Market The Neoliberal Temptation CCDA and the Rearticulation of Resistance   Glossary List of Interview Participants and Research Sites Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409138131287,"sku":"9781487501433","price":41.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487501433.jpg?v=1730505578","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dealing-with-peace-9781487501433","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}