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Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, leading scholars based throughout the Americas examine postwar Guatemalan society from varied perspectives, including those of ethnography, history, geography, politics, and economics.
Trade Review"An important collection,
War by Other Means is the result of many years of multifaceted collaboration among the editors and authors. Rich in content and in method, the volume combines the views and idioms of scholars from Guatemala and the United States as they write history, testimony, ethnography, and political economy in the complex aftermath of death and survival in Central America."—
Marisol de la Cadena, author of
Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991“Every few years, a new volume explores the many aftermaths of the violent insurgency and rabid counterinsurgency that plagued Guatemala in the 1970s and 1980s. This latest collection of essays is among the best yet, not least because of its extensive bibliography on the postwar period…Highly recommended.” -- P. R. Sullivan * Choice *
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War by Other Means brilliantly links past and present through studies of biopolitics, everyday life, and lived hypermodernity in a land wracked by violence. Rich, nuanced, detailed, and full of multiple voices - many of them Guatemalan - it is indispensable to students and experts alike. It engages themes at the forefront of Guatemalan and Latin American studies and cannot be recommended highly enough." -- J.T. Way * Hispanic American Historical Review *
"This volume of insightful essays vitally extends the literature on Guatemala and on neoliberalism and globalization more generally . . . Readers from a wide array of backgrounds and experiences will find this volume incredibly helpful in understanding the sweeping effects of today's global forces . . ." -- Shirley Heying * Journal of Anthropological Research *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction. Aftermath: Harvests of Violence and Histories of the Future / Carlota McAllister and Diane M. Nelson 1
Part I: Surveying the Landscape: Histories of the Present
1. Five Hundred Years / Greg Grandin 49
2. Difficult Complementarity: Relations between the Mayan and Revolutionary Movements / Santiago Bastos and Manuela Camus 71
3. Testimonial Truths and Revolutionary Mysteries / Carlota McAllister 93
Part II: Market Freedoms and Market Forces: The New Biopolitical Economy
4. Development and/as Dispossession: Elite Networks and Extractive Industry in the Franja Transversal del Norte / Luis Solano 119
5. "We're No Longer Dealing with Fools": Violence, Labor, and Governance on the South Coast / Elizabeth Oglesby 143
6. "A Dignified Community Where We Can Live": Violence, Law, and Debt in Nueva Cajolá's Struggle for Land / Irmalicia Velásquez Nimatuj 170
Part III. Means into Ends: Neoliberal Transparency and Its Shadows
7. What Happened to the Revolution? Guatemala City's
Maras from Life to Death / Deborah T. Levenson 195
8. The Long War in Colotenango: Guerrillas, Army, and Civil Patrols / Paul Kobrak 218
9. After Lynching / Jennifer Burrell 241
10. Labor Contractors to Military Specialists to Development Experts: Marginal Elites and Postwar State Formation / Matilde González Izás 261
Part IV: Whither the Future? Postwar Aspirations and Identifications
11. 100 Percent Omnilife: Health, Economy, and the End/s of War / Diane M. Nelson 285
12. The
Shumo Challenge: White Class Privilege and the Post-Race, Post-Genocide Alliances of Cosmopolitanism from Below / Jorge Ramón González Ponciano 307
13. A Generation after the Refugees' Return: Are We There Yet? / Paula Worby 330
Works Cited 353
Contributors 377
Index 383
