Julie Gibbings
Biographic Data
| ID | 349691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Gibbings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbings |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBINGS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1559-0483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seeing and unseeing landscapes: Geographic knowledges, cartographic technologies, and the early Cold War in Latin America
Immediately following World War II, the United States recognized the need for new, detailed knowledge of local conditions and uniform maps that would enable a new age of hemispheric defense. Crucial to these efforts was the implementation of a new system of measuring the earth's surface that transcended national boundaries, and several new knowledges about natural resources and conditions. With these purposes in mind, the United States founded th…
Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador David Carey, Jr
Journal Article Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador. David Carey, Jr Get access Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador David Carey (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. 384 pp. $34.95). Julie Gibbings Julie Gibbings University of Edinburgh [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala
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 reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an o…
Their debts follow them into the afterlife: German Settlers, Ethnographic Knowledge, and the Forging of Coffee Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala
German coffee planters in nineteenth-century Alta Verapaz, Guatemala were also ethnographers, archaeologists, and geographers who published their works in Germany, the United States, and Guatemala. Their published works, as well as coffee plantation records, government correspondence, judicial records and other archival materials reveal how German coffee planters-cum-ethnographers drew upon ethnographic knowledge and representations to forge a re…
David Kazanjian, The brink of freedom: Improvising life in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world
Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’ Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
In contemporary Guatemala, Q’eqchi’ Mayas of German descent are reclaiming identities as ‘the improved race’ ( la raza mejorada ), which allows them claim both tradition and authenticity as well as racial whiteness and modernity. While surprising to contemporary observers, these identities have longer histories, rooted in the interwar period, when Guatemalan urban intellectuals and statesmen looked to German-Maya sexual unions as the racial solut…
The Shadow of Slavery: Historical Time, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
In the midst of Guatemala's nineteenth-century coffee boom, a frost struck the department of Alta Verapaz, destroying coffee harvests and catalyzing a debate over the "slavery" of mandamiento (forced wage labor). At the heart of these disputes was the problem of how to achieve Guatemalan political modernity, which focused discursive struggles over mandamientos around questions of national progress and related conceptions of history as the teleolo…
De la patria del criollo a la nación de las elites
Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place ed. by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, and: Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence by Catherine Komisaruk (review)
Reviewed by: Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place ed. by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, and: Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence by Catherine Komisaruk Julie A. Gibbings Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place Edited by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence By Catherine Komisar…
Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala , by Kirsten Weld
Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala, by Kirsten Weld. Durham, Duke University Press, 2014. xvi, 335 pp. $26.95 US (paper). In June 2005, investigators with Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman's Office (PDH) stumbled upon what appeared to be vast quantities of old papers in derelict offices of Guatemala's infamous national police. The human rights workers soon realized they had discovered the largest collection of secret state…
Their debts follow them into the afterlife: German Settlers, Ethnographic Knowledge, and the Forging of Coffee Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala
German coffee planters in nineteenth-century Alta Verapaz, Guatemala were also ethnographers, archaeologists, and geographers who published their works in Germany, the United States, and Guatemala. Their published works, as well as coffee plantation records, government correspondence, judicial records and other archival materials reveal how German coffee planters-cum-ethnographers drew upon ethnographic knowledge and representations to forge a re…
The Shadow of Slavery: Historical Time, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
In the midst of Guatemala's nineteenth-century coffee boom, a frost struck the department of Alta Verapaz, destroying coffee harvests and catalyzing a debate over the "slavery" of mandamiento (forced wage labor). At the heart of these disputes was the problem of how to achieve Guatemalan political modernity, which focused discursive struggles over mandamientos around questions of national progress and related conceptions of history as the teleolo…
Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’ Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
In contemporary Guatemala, Q’eqchi’ Mayas of German descent are reclaiming identities as ‘the improved race’ ( la raza mejorada ), which allows them claim both tradition and authenticity as well as racial whiteness and modernity. While surprising to contemporary observers, these identities have longer histories, rooted in the interwar period, when Guatemalan urban intellectuals and statesmen looked to German-Maya sexual unions as the racial solut…
Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place ed. by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, and: Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence by Catherine Komisaruk (review)
Reviewed by: Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place ed. by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe, and: Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence by Catherine Komisaruk Julie A. Gibbings Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between race and place Edited by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Labor and Love in Guatemala: The eve of independence By Catherine Komisar…
Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala , by Kirsten Weld
Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala, by Kirsten Weld. Durham, Duke University Press, 2014. xvi, 335 pp. $26.95 US (paper). In June 2005, investigators with Guatemala's Human Rights Ombudsman's Office (PDH) stumbled upon what appeared to be vast quantities of old papers in derelict offices of Guatemala's infamous national police. The human rights workers soon realized they had discovered the largest collection of secret state…
Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’ Maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
In contemporary Guatemala, Q’eqchi’ Mayas of German descent are reclaiming identities as ‘the improved race’ ( la raza mejorada ), which allows them claim both tradition and authenticity as well as racial whiteness and modernity. While surprising to contemporary observers, these identities have longer histories, rooted in the interwar period, when Guatemalan urban intellectuals and statesmen looked to German-Maya sexual unions as the racial solut…
The Shadow of Slavery: Historical Time, Labor, and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
In the midst of Guatemala's nineteenth-century coffee boom, a frost struck the department of Alta Verapaz, destroying coffee harvests and catalyzing a debate over the "slavery" of mandamiento (forced wage labor). At the heart of these disputes was the problem of how to achieve Guatemalan political modernity, which focused discursive struggles over mandamientos around questions of national progress and related conceptions of history as the teleolo…
De la patria del criollo a la nación de las elites
David Kazanjian, The brink of freedom: Improvising life in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world
Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala
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 reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an o…
Their debts follow them into the afterlife: German Settlers, Ethnographic Knowledge, and the Forging of Coffee Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Guatemala
German coffee planters in nineteenth-century Alta Verapaz, Guatemala were also ethnographers, archaeologists, and geographers who published their works in Germany, the United States, and Guatemala. Their published works, as well as coffee plantation records, government correspondence, judicial records and other archival materials reveal how German coffee planters-cum-ethnographers drew upon ethnographic knowledge and representations to forge a re…
Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador David Carey, Jr
Journal Article Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador. David Carey, Jr Get access Health in the Highlands: Indigenous Healing and Scientific Medicine in Guatemala and Ecuador David Carey (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. 384 pp. $34.95). Julie Gibbings Julie Gibbings University of Edinburgh [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
Seeing and unseeing landscapes: Geographic knowledges, cartographic technologies, and the early Cold War in Latin America
Immediately following World War II, the United States recognized the need for new, detailed knowledge of local conditions and uniform maps that would enable a new age of hemispheric defense. Crucial to these efforts was the implementation of a new system of measuring the earth's surface that transcended national boundaries, and several new knowledges about natural resources and conditions. With these purposes in mind, the United States founded th…
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