The defence of territory and local struggle for more democracy in post-war Guatemala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6252629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Illmer (0000-0001-9983-8855, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 771-786 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Democratization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13510347.2017.1420646 |
| OpenAlex | W2797126614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 12 |
Twenty years since the signing of the Peace Accords, shifts have taken place in Guatemala's landscape of collective struggles for democracy. Instead of the historical peasant movements or the civil society organizations based in Guatemala City that dominated collective action in the context of the Accords, over the past decade local, rural nodes of resistance to neo-liberal policies have consolidated as the most sustained attempts to instil a democratizing impetus. In the context of Guatemala's post-war state, captured by legal and illegal elite factions, this rural agency is directed primarily towards the municipal and community level. It is framed around the defence of territory and emerges on the basis of local meanings and practices. By analysing the case of an organizational process promoted by indigenous communities in Guatemala's northern highlands, I argue for paying attention to these organizational patterns despite their limited geographical projection. I derive the importance of this collective agency from their attempts to transcend a purely antagonistic stance by reconfiguring local political interactions and making their immediate surroundings more democratic
Agency (philosophy · Civil society · Collective action · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Elite · Geography · Indigenous · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Humanidades e Ciências Sociais
The moral economy of defence of territory and the political economy of extractivism in the Polochic valley, Guatemala
Los Movimientos De Esperanza Y La Defensa De La Vida en Conflictos Socioambientales en El Territorio Mapuche
Exile, Return, Record Exploring Historical Narratives and Community Resistance through Participatory Filmmaking in 'Post-conflict' Guatemala
La Piedra en el Zapato
Producing an Extractive Frontier
Entangled territorial controversies
Resistance, repression and elite dynamics
Water and Socio-Environmental Crisis in Guatemala City's Metropolitan Area
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |