Rachel Hatcher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Hatcher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Hatcher |
| SIGNATURE | HATCHER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-5868-1986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
From Aldana to Zamora and Everyone In-Between
From 2014 to 2023, Ricardo Mendez Ruiz published thousands of Facebook posts where he explained that he and the far-right Foundation against Terrorism, of which he is president, will defend Guatemala's military and sovereignty from “terrorists” who threaten Guatemala. Mendez Ruiz engages in propaganda campaigns and lawfare to discursively discredit targets–human rights defenders and anti-impunity actors–and their work. These two work together and…
For the Love of Money
This article draws on the literature on dehumanization to explore Guatemala’s Foundation against Terrorism (Fundación contra el Terrorismo) and its multi-faceted and intersectional dehumanization of human rights defenders, imagined as contemporary heirs to the ‘terrorists’ (that is, leftist guerrillas) to which the Fundación’s name refers. This research is based on the Fundación’s social media posts and those of its followers. I explore the ease …
The Victims and Violence of Civil War
This article examines two memorial projects in El Salvador, the Monument to Memory and Truth, unveiled in 2003, and the Reconciliation Sculpture Park, inaugurated in 2017. The first is a civil society project and the second is governmental. I explore the two projects’ distinct visions of both civil war and reconciliation. In the former project, the victims are the focus— and indeed the foundation of a new El Salvador—while in the latter, enemy co…
The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America
The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America
The Past as Monument in El Salvador
“The Work…of a Thousand Different Hands” Holding a Thousand Cans of Spray Paint and Buckets of Glue
After the end of Guatemala’s thirty-six-year-long internal armed conflict, the country set about figuring out the history of this violent past. This article explores street artists’ contributions to historical knowledge, arguing, first, that they are public historians and, second, that these artist-historians work to expand responsibility for gross human rights violations beyond a traditional focus on the military to include the economic elite, w…
Adiós Niño
"Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, by Deborah T. Levenson." Canadian Journal of History, 49(1), pp. 146–147
Truth and Forgetting in Guatemala
As part of the comprehensive Peace Accords, officially signed 29 December 1996, the Guatemalan state and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity agreed to form the Commission for the Clarification of History (CEH) to relate the history of the previous 36 years of “internal armed conflict.” The Catholic Church, seeking to complement the work of the official commission, created its own commission, the Recuperation of Historical Memory Project (…
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Truth and Forgetting in Guatemala
As part of the comprehensive Peace Accords, officially signed 29 December 1996, the Guatemalan state and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity agreed to form the Commission for the Clarification of History (CEH) to relate the history of the previous 36 years of “internal armed conflict.” The Catholic Church, seeking to complement the work of the official commission, created its own commission, the Recuperation of Historical Memory Project (…
Adiós Niño
"Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, by Deborah T. Levenson." Canadian Journal of History, 49(1), pp. 146–147
“The Work…of a Thousand Different Hands” Holding a Thousand Cans of Spray Paint and Buckets of Glue
After the end of Guatemala’s thirty-six-year-long internal armed conflict, the country set about figuring out the history of this violent past. This article explores street artists’ contributions to historical knowledge, arguing, first, that they are public historians and, second, that these artist-historians work to expand responsibility for gross human rights violations beyond a traditional focus on the military to include the economic elite, w…
The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America
The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America
The Past as Monument in El Salvador
The Victims and Violence of Civil War
This article examines two memorial projects in El Salvador, the Monument to Memory and Truth, unveiled in 2003, and the Reconciliation Sculpture Park, inaugurated in 2017. The first is a civil society project and the second is governmental. I explore the two projects’ distinct visions of both civil war and reconciliation. In the former project, the victims are the focus— and indeed the foundation of a new El Salvador—while in the latter, enemy co…
For the Love of Money
This article draws on the literature on dehumanization to explore Guatemala’s Foundation against Terrorism (Fundación contra el Terrorismo) and its multi-faceted and intersectional dehumanization of human rights defenders, imagined as contemporary heirs to the ‘terrorists’ (that is, leftist guerrillas) to which the Fundación’s name refers. This research is based on the Fundación’s social media posts and those of its followers. I explore the ease …
From Aldana to Zamora and Everyone In-Between
From 2014 to 2023, Ricardo Mendez Ruiz published thousands of Facebook posts where he explained that he and the far-right Foundation against Terrorism, of which he is president, will defend Guatemala's military and sovereignty from “terrorists” who threaten Guatemala. Mendez Ruiz engages in propaganda campaigns and lawfare to discursively discredit targets–human rights defenders and anti-impunity actors–and their work. These two work together and…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Politics and Society in Latin America (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Armed conflict (2 works)