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Honduras in Dangerous Times
Resistance and Resilience
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2015
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Honduras in Dangerous Times: Resistance and Resilience explores how the people of Honduras use cultural resources to resist and to change the conditions of their society, to critique those conditions, and to create the pieces of a better future in the midst of a dangerous present. The book explores ideas and practices which support systems of dominance and submission in Honduras and the ways in which people have slowly developed a broad culture of resistance and resilience. This culture includes struggling for land and environmental preservation against extractive industries, promoting natural local food and sustainable technology to replace foreign agribusiness, bringing a corrupt legal and political system to account by invoking concepts of human rights and laws routinely ignored, bending institutional religion to issues of social justice, and expressing protest and visions of a better society through popular culture. The book highlights the special contribution of the country’s indigenous peoples in resistance; it also discusses the powerful role of the United States in shaping Honduran economic, political, and military life, and what people-to-people solidarity with Hondurans means for citizens of the United States. The book concludes by presenting Honduran popular resistance in a context of late neoliberalism in Honduras and in relation to other Latin American social movements. Honduras in Dangerous Times shows that Hondurans resist in the face of violence and oppression not only because they are resilient, but also that they are resilient because they resist. Resistance keeps hope alive and change possible.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8355-7
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8356-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
268
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Acknowledgments No access
Acronyms and Organizations No access
1 Encounters with Honduras No access Pages 1 - 16
2 A Culture of Domination No access Pages 17 - 38
3 Rituals of Control No access Pages 39 - 64
4 Evolution of a Culture of Resistance No access Pages 65 - 90
5 Patterns of Indigenous Resistance No access Pages 91 - G
6 Nourishing Resilience No access Pages 126 - 147
7 The Legal Order No access Pages 148 - 169
8 Ancient Weapon of the People No access Pages 170 - 191
9 A Spiritual Struggle No access Pages 192 - 219
10 The United States in Honduras No access Pages 220 - 235
