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Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala
Racism, Genocide, Citizenship
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2012
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In this engaged critique of the geopolitics of knowledge, Egla Martínez Salazar examines the genocide and other forms of state terror such as racialized feminicide and the attack on Maya childhood, which occurred in Guatemala of the 1980s and '90s with the full support of Western colonial powers. Drawing on a careful analysis of recently declassified state documents, thematic life histories, and compelling interviews with Maya and Mestizo women and men survivors, Martinez Salazar shows how people resisting oppression were converted into the politically abject. At the center of her book is an examination of how coloniality survives colonialism—a crucial point for understanding how contemporary hegemonic practices and ideologies such as equality, democracy, human rights, peace, and citizenship are deeply contested terrains, for they create nominal equality from practical social inequality. While many in the global North continue to enjoy the benefits of this domination, millions, if not billions, in both the South and North have been persecuted, controlled, and exterminated during their struggles for a more just world.
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Edition
1/2012
Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4122-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4124-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
258
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Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 24
2 Genealogical Backgrounds of Power No access Pages 25 - 60
3 Structural and Everyday Practices of Racism No access Pages 61 - 100
4 Genocide as a Tool to Eliminate the Racialized and Politically “Undesirable” No access Pages 101 - 142
5 The Bureaucracy of Death and Vilified Memories No access Pages 143 - 196
6 Citizenship as Repression and a Space of Inclusion-Exclusion No access Pages 197 - 224
7 Some Concluding Thoughts No access Pages 225 - 234
