This article seeks to connect the construction of a memorial to war victims in the Maya-Q’eqchi’ community of Sahakok, in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, some 20 years ago with persistent disputes over historical memory and their relationship with the legal prosecution of perpetrators of the violence – in particular the case of genocide charges against former general Efraín Ríos Mont. First, it examines responses to state violence and ways in which the counterinsurgent war affected the perceptions and identities of Maya-Q’eqchi’ during this period. The social implications of state violence are explored, emphasizing what has been referred to as «the cultural elaboration of terror»; this arose when the region’s communities were left without stable s...
From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala went through one of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in Latin Ameri...
On 10 May2013, decades of grassroots activism culminated in the conviction of Guatemalan dictator Ef...
This research focuses on the experiences of survivors of political violence and their healers in Mom...
Este artículo busca interconectar la construcción hace 20 años de un memorial de víctimas de guerra ...
At the beginning of 1980, one of the most intense and atrocious military repressions in the long his...
Drawing on an analysis of the involvement of survivors of the Guatemalan armed conflict in a genocid...
L'autrice étudie les espaces dans lesquels les femmes Mayas ixil (Guatemala) mobilisent la mémoire d...
From the 1960s to 1996, Guatemala endured a violent civil war. After an indigenous group of Mayans d...
The author studies the spaces in which Mayan ixil women (Guatemala) mobilize the memory of the genoc...
"Tierra Arrasada" (Scorched Earth) was a military program applied in Guatemala by former President J...
This research focuses on the experiences of survivors of political violence and their healers in Mom...
textThis dissertation will examine the speech practices of collectives of Ixhil Mayas in post-war Gu...
In this paper I show how selective massacres and state terror strategy systematically changed to a t...
In this dissertation I explore the ways one group of indigenous Guatemalans narrated the extreme sta...
Mayan communities in Guatemala has historically formed from the axis of the constituent and persiste...
From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala went through one of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in Latin Ameri...
On 10 May2013, decades of grassroots activism culminated in the conviction of Guatemalan dictator Ef...
This research focuses on the experiences of survivors of political violence and their healers in Mom...
Este artículo busca interconectar la construcción hace 20 años de un memorial de víctimas de guerra ...
At the beginning of 1980, one of the most intense and atrocious military repressions in the long his...
Drawing on an analysis of the involvement of survivors of the Guatemalan armed conflict in a genocid...
L'autrice étudie les espaces dans lesquels les femmes Mayas ixil (Guatemala) mobilisent la mémoire d...
From the 1960s to 1996, Guatemala endured a violent civil war. After an indigenous group of Mayans d...
The author studies the spaces in which Mayan ixil women (Guatemala) mobilize the memory of the genoc...
"Tierra Arrasada" (Scorched Earth) was a military program applied in Guatemala by former President J...
This research focuses on the experiences of survivors of political violence and their healers in Mom...
textThis dissertation will examine the speech practices of collectives of Ixhil Mayas in post-war Gu...
In this paper I show how selective massacres and state terror strategy systematically changed to a t...
In this dissertation I explore the ways one group of indigenous Guatemalans narrated the extreme sta...
Mayan communities in Guatemala has historically formed from the axis of the constituent and persiste...
From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala went through one of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in Latin Ameri...
On 10 May2013, decades of grassroots activism culminated in the conviction of Guatemalan dictator Ef...
This research focuses on the experiences of survivors of political violence and their healers in Mom...