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Security, Development, and Fear In Guatemala

Enduring Ties and Lasting Consequences

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ID4489986
AuthorsRebecca Clouser (corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume109
Issue3
Pages382-398
Publication date2019-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/gere.12331
OpenAlexW2905194620
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited34

This paper investigates the long‐term ties between security, development, and fear in Guatemala. I argue that as the development apparatus in Guatemala has long been structured around violence and security concerns, development encounters in the contemporary era continue to be shaped by fear. The confluence of multiple mechanisms of fear, including the legacies of violence, surveillance, and coercion, structure development encounters in profound ways. Drawing on semistructured interviews with development practitioners, I examine their perceptions of fear's impact on development encounters at the local level to highlight the problematic culture of fear rhetoric, which serves to obscure practices through which lived experiences of fear are reproduced. Emphases on social cohesion, solidarity, and behaviors which “better contribute” to development work to mask the racialized elements of these discourses and ultimately serve to silence and delegitimize indigenous demands for structural change and justice in the country

Aesthetics · Criminology · Economic Justice · Fear of crime · Indigenous · Perception · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Silence · Sociology · Solidarity · International Development and Aid · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Psychology · Social Psychology

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