The origins and dynamics of genocide : political violence in Guatemala / Roddy Brett.
2016
F1466.5
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Title
The origins and dynamics of genocide : political violence in Guatemala / Roddy Brett.
ISBN
9781137397676 (electronic book)
1137397675 (electronic book)
9781137397669
1137397675 (electronic book)
9781137397669
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 249 pages)
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F1466.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
972.8105/2
Summary
This book rigorously documents and explains the genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan state against indigenous Maya populations within the context of its counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas between 1981 and 1983. In doing so it brings to light a genocide that has remained largely invisible within both academic disciplines and the practitioner sphere. In May 2013, former de facto president of Guatemala, General Efrain Rios Montt, was for ten days indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity within Guatemala’s domestic courts. Based upon over a decade of ethnographic research, including in survivors’ communities in Guatemala, this book documents the historical processes shaping the genocide by analysing the evolution of both counterinsurgent and insurgent violence and strategy, focusing above all on its impact upon the civilian population. The research clearly evidences the impact of political violence upon non-combatants; how military and insurgent strategies gradually implicate civilians in conflict and the strategies civilians may adopt in order to survive them. Convincingly framed within key theoretical scholarship from genocide studies and comparative politics it speaks to a broad audience beyond Latin Americanists.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Understanding the Violence
Chapter 2: Civilian Experience of Violence in Civil War and Armed Conflict
Chapter 3: The EGP: Insurgent Strategies in the Ixcán and the Ixil
Chapter 4: The Counterinsurgent Response
Chapter 5: War in the Rebel Heartlands
Chapter 6: Displacement and Exile
Conclusions: And History Shall not be Unwritten.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Understanding the Violence
Chapter 2: Civilian Experience of Violence in Civil War and Armed Conflict
Chapter 3: The EGP: Insurgent Strategies in the Ixcán and the Ixil
Chapter 4: The Counterinsurgent Response
Chapter 5: War in the Rebel Heartlands
Chapter 6: Displacement and Exile
Conclusions: And History Shall not be Unwritten.