The Ghosts of the Past, Human Dignity, and the Collective Need for Reparation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2177913 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arturo Arias (0000-0003-3965-5285, Labex Corail, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 207-218 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-2222 • E-ISSN: 1744-2230 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17442221003787134 |
| OpenAlex | W2040194751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
In the early 1980s the Guatemalan army decimated the Achí Maya villages in the valley of Rabinal because they had opposed the construction of a hydroelectric dam that was going to destroy their homes and their livelihoods. This article uses the villagers’ demands for reparations as a way to explore issues that link ethnic historical memory to a notion that we could label as ‘postmemory’, or, better yet, ‘postmemorializing’, a sort of restitutional justice that goes beyond a more conventional understanding of what historical memory is. I argue that postmemorializing includes not only a sense of preserving the historical memory of ‘originary terror’, but adds to it a demand for economic reparations. Moreover, it extends its mantle to broader ethical issues of human dignity and a demand for the recognition of ethnicized subalternized subjects bearing alternative epistemologies and ways of thinking
Archaeology · Collective memory · Criminology · Dignity · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Ethnic group · Historical memory · Indigenous · Livelihood · Maya · Political science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cambodian History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |