{"product_id":"war-by-other-means-aftermath-in-postgenocide-guatemala-9780822355090","title":"War by Other Means  Aftermath in PostGenocide","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important collection, \u003ci\u003eWar by Other Means \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\"—\u003cb\u003eMarisol de la Cadena\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWar by Other Means \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Aftermath: Harvests of Violence and Histories of the Future \/ Carlota McAllister and Diane M. Nelson 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Surveying the Landscape: Histories of the Present \u003cbr\u003e 1. Five Hundred Years \/ Greg Grandin 49\u003cbr\u003e 2. Difficult Complementarity: Relations between the Mayan and Revolutionary Movements \/ Santiago Bastos and Manuela Camus 71\u003cbr\u003e 3. Testimonial Truths and Revolutionary Mysteries \/ Carlota McAllister 93\u003cbr\u003e Part II: Market Freedoms and Market Forces: The New Biopolitical Economy \u003cbr\u003e 4. Development and\/as Dispossession: Elite Networks and Extractive Industry in the Franja Transversal del Norte \/ Luis Solano 119\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"We're No Longer Dealing with Fools\": Violence, Labor, and Governance on the South Coast \/ Elizabeth Oglesby 143\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"A Dignified Community Where We Can Live\": Violence, Law, and Debt in Nueva Cajolá's Struggle for Land \/ Irmalicia Velásquez Nimatuj 170\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Means into Ends: Neoliberal Transparency and Its Shadows \u003cbr\u003e 7. What Happened to the Revolution? Guatemala City's \u003ci\u003eMaras\u003c\/i\u003e from Life to Death \/ Deborah T. Levenson 195\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Long War in Colotenango: Guerrillas, Army, and Civil Patrols \/ Paul Kobrak 218\u003cbr\u003e 9. After Lynching \/ Jennifer Burrell 241\u003cbr\u003e 10. Labor Contractors to Military Specialists to Development Experts: Marginal Elites and Postwar State Formation \/ Matilde González Izás 261\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: Whither the Future? Postwar Aspirations and Identifications \u003cbr\u003e 11. 100 Percent Omnilife: Health, Economy, and the End\/s of War \/ Diane M. Nelson 285\u003cbr\u003e 12. The \u003ci\u003eShumo\u003c\/i\u003e Challenge: White Class Privilege and the Post-Race, Post-Genocide Alliances of Cosmopolitanism from Below \/ Jorge Ramón González Ponciano 307\u003cbr\u003e 13. A Generation after the Refugees' Return: Are We There Yet? \/ Paula Worby 330\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 353\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 377\u003cbr\u003e Index 383","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406076879191,"sku":"9780822355090","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822355090.jpg?v=1730494447","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/war-by-other-means-aftermath-in-postgenocide-guatemala-9780822355090","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}