Description
Book SynopsisIn 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict. Twenty years later, the new era of political protest in Guatemala is highly complex and contradictory: the persistence of colonialism, fraught indigenous-settler relations, political exclusion, corruption, criminal impunity, gendered violence, judicial procedures conducted under threat, entrenched inequality, as well as economic fragility.
Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala examines the complexities of the quest for justice in Guatemala, and the realities of both new forms of resistance and long-standing obstacles to the rule of law in the human and environmental realms. Written by prominent scholars and activists, this book explores high-profile trials, the activities of foreign mining companies, attempts to prosecute war crimes, and cultural responses to injustice in lite
Table of Contents
Part One: Imagining Justice Chapter One: Introduction. Transitional, Transnational, and Distributive Justice in Guatemala Candace Johnson (University of Guelph) Chapter Two: Memory-Truth-Justice: The Crisis of the Living in the Search for Guatemala’s Dead and Disappeared Catherine Nolin (University of Northern British Columbia) Chapter Three: Transnational and Local Solidarities in the Struggle for Justice: Choc versus Padilla Kalowatie Deonandan (University of Saskatchewan) and Rebecca Tatham (University of Saskatchewan) Part Two: Justice in Practice Chapter Four :A Diary of Canadian Mining in Guatemala, 2004-2013 Magalí Rey Rosa (Savia: School of Ecological Thought) Chapter Five: Impunity in Guatemala: A Never-Ending Battle Helen Mack Chang (The Myrna Mack Foundation) Chapter Six: Politics, Institutions, and the Prospects for Justice in Guatemala Claudia Paz y Paz (Organization of American States) Part Three: Cultural Responses to Injustice Chapter Seven: Scars that Run Deep: Performing Violence and Memory in the Work of Regina José Galindo and Rosa Chávez Rita M. Palacios (Concordia University) Chapter Eight: Human and Environmental Justice in the Work of Rodrigo Rey Rosa Stephen Henighan (University of Guelph) Chapter Nine: Press Clippings: The Daily News in Guatemala W. George Lovell (Queen’s University) Chapter Ten: Conclusion Stephen Henighan (University of Guelph) and Candace Johnson (University of Guelph)
