War by Other Means: Aftermath in Post-Genocide Guatemala PDF
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War by Other Means War by Other Means ————————————————————— Aftermath in Post- Genocide Guatemala EditEd by Carlota McAllister and diane M. Nelson Duke University Press Durham and London 2013 © 2013 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ♾ Designed by Heather Hensley Typeset in Arno Pro by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging- in-P ublication Data War by other means : aftermath in post-genocide Guatemala / edited by Carlota McAllister and Diane M. Nelson. pages cm Includes index. ISBN 978-0-8223-5493-2 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8223-5509-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Guatemala—History—1985– 2. Violence—Guatemala. I. McAllister, Carlota, 1969– II. Nelson, Diane M., 1963– f1466.7.w37 2013 972.8105ʹ3—dc23 2013012812 To all those who, when the powerful insisted “Death to intelligence,” refused to the last. For all those who carry on. CoNtENts ix AckNowledgmeNtS 1 INtroductIoN Aftermath: Harvests of Violence and Histories of the Future Carlota McAllister and Diane M. Nelson PArt i: survEyiNg thE LANdsCAPE: historiEs of thE PrEsENt 49 chApter 1 Five Hundred Years Greg Grandin 71 chApter 2 Difficult Complementarity: Relations between the Mayan and Revolutionary Movements Santiago Bastos and Manuela Camus 93 chApter 3 Testimonial Truths and Revolutionary Mysteries Carlota McAllister PArt ii: MArkEt frEEdoMs ANd MArkEt forCEs: thE NEw bioPoLitiCAL ECoNoMy 119 chApter 4 Development and/as Dispossession: Elite Networks and Extractive Industry in the Franja Transversal del Norte Luis Solano 143 chApter 5 “We’re No Longer Dealing with Fools”: Violence, Labor, and Governance on the South Coast Elizabeth Oglesby 170 chApter 6 “A Dignified Community Where We Can Live”: Violence, Law, and Debt in Nueva Cajolá’s Struggle for Land Irmalicia Velásquez Nimatuj PArt iii: MEANs iNto ENds: NEoLibErAL trANsPArENCy ANd its shAdows 195 chApter 7 What Happened to the Revolution? Guatemala City’s Maras from Life to Death Deborah T. Levenson 218 chApter 8 The Long War in Colotenango: Guerrillas, Army, and Civil Patrols Paul Kobrak 241 chApter 9 After Lynching Jennifer Burrell 261 chApter 10 Labor Contractors to Military Specialists to Development Experts: Marginal Elites and Postwar State Formation Matilde González-Izás PArt iv: whithEr thE futurE? PostwAr AsPirAtioNs ANd idENtifiCAtioNs 285 chApter 11 100 Percent Omnilife: Health, Economy, and the End/s of War Diane M. Nelson 307 chApter 12 The Shumo Challenge: White Class Privilege and the Post- Race, Post- Genocide Alliances of Cosmopolitanism from Below Jorge Ramón González Ponciano 330 chApter 13 A Generation after the Refugees’ Return: Are We There Yet? Paula Worby 353 workS cIted 375 coNtrIButorS 381 INdex ACkNowLEdgMENts We would like to thank our contributors for having faith, and all the Guatemalans and Guatemalanists who have supported us over the years, especially AvANcSo and Clara Arenas. Wenner- Gren gen- erously supported the preliminary workshop that led to this vol- ume. We also thank Carol Smith, Valerie Milholland (for also having faith), Miriam Angress, Netta van Vliet, Yasmine Cho, Brian Smith- son, Elena Turevon, Michelle Switzer, Anabella Acevedo, and Valia Garzón for all their help. George Lovell, Ellen Moodie, and two other truly heroic anonymous reviewers have greatly improved this volume with their support and challenge, for which we are deeply grateful. And, of course, we thank our companions, families, and each other. We go to press just as former General Efrain Rios Montt, head of the Guatemalan state and commander-in-chief of the Guatema- lan Army from March 23, 1982, to August 8, 1983, has been declared guilty of the crime of genocide, in a historic verdict for Guatemala and the world. The contributors to this book would like to honor the enormous courage and decades-long efforts of the survivors of genocide, together with activists, lawyers, judges, forensic scientists, Guatemala’s attorney general, and myriad other allies to make jus- tice happen against enormous odds. The struggle to put the post- in post-genocide has a long way to go, but a critical milestone has been reached.
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