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Omar Sanchez-Sibony

By embedding Guatemala in recent conceptual and theoretical work in comparative politics and political economy, this volume advances knowledge about country's politics, economy, and state-society interactions. The contributors examine the stubborn realities and challenges afflicting Guatemala during the post-Peace-Accords-era across the following subjects: the state, subnationa...

Way, J.t.

u003cpu003eIn u003ciu003eAgrotropolis,u003c/iu003e historian J. T. Way traces the developments of Guatemalan urbanization and youth culture since 1983. In case studies that bring together political economy, popular music, and everyday life, Way explores the rise of urban space in towns seen as quintessentially "rural" and showcases grassroots cultural assertiveness. In a post-r...

Nolin, Catherine / Russell, Grahame

What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, dominant Canadian mining interests cash in on the transformation of land into "property," while those responsible act with near-total impunity. Editors Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell ...

Gibbings, Julie

Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their 'present' is our 'past' - and ...

Sellers-Garcia, Sylvia

A true story of violence and punishment that illuminates a transformative moment in Guatemalan history. On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Dâiaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and...

Bell, Elizabeth

Learn about the largest celebration in the world for Holy Week with chapters on its history of the processions, the carpets, holy vigils, processions, sculptures, funeral marches, calendar and explanation of more than 60 activities and bibliography. Focus on the processions and sculptures through color photographs by Nelo Mijangos. ...

Antil, Marcos

Yo soy Marcos Antil, guatemalteco, maya q'anjob'al, migrante, padre de familia, empresario tecnológico, fundador de la compañía XumaK en Estados Unidos, Colombia y Guatemala. Con clientes en más de 25 países entre los cuales figuran empresas del Fortune 500. Nací y crecí en Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala; a los 14 años migré indocumentado a EE.UU. sin la compañía de al...