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Beyond repair? : Mayan women's protagonism in the aftermath of genocidal harm / Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes.

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    Summary
    "Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women's agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q'eqchi', Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women who are seeking truth, justice, and reparation for the violence they experienced during the war, and the women's rights activists, lawyers, psychologists, Mayan rights activists, and researchers who have accompanied them as intermediaries for over a decade. Alison Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes use the concept of "protagonism" to deconstruct dominant psychological discursive constructions of women as "victims," "survivors," "selves," "individuals," and/or "subjects." They argue that at different moments Mayan women have been actively engaged as protagonists in constructivist and discursive performances through which they have narrated new, mobile meanings of "Mayan woman," repositioning themselves at the interstices of multiple communities and in their pursuit of redress for harm suffered." -- Publisher's description
    Series
    Genocide, political violence, human rights series
    Genocide, political violence, human rights series.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Crosby, Alison (Associate professor), author.
    Published
    New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
    Locale
    Guatemala
    Contents
    Introduction
    Documenting protagonism : "I can fly with large wings"
    Recounting protagonism : "No one can take this thorn from my soul"
    Judicializing protagonism : "What will the law say?"
    Repairing protagonism : "Carrying a heavy load"
    Accompanying protagonism : "Facing two directions"
    Conclusion
    Acknowledgments
    Notes
    References
    Index.
    Other Authors/Editors
    Lykes, M. Brinton, 1949- author.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index.
    Introduction -- Documenting protagonism : "I can fly with large wings" -- Recounting protagonism : "No one can take this thorn from my soul" -- Judicializing protagonism : "What will the law say?" -- Repairing protagonism : "Carrying a heavy load" -- Accompanying protagonism : "Facing two directions" -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780813598970
    0813598974
    9780813598963
    0813598966
    Physical Description
    x, 268 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

    Keywords & Subjects

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    Maya women--Guatemala--Social conditions. Women--Crimes against--Guatemala. Guatemala--History--Civil War, 1960-1996--Social aspects. Guatemala--History--Civil War, 1960-1996--Atrocities. Femmes mayas--Guatemala--Conditions sociales. Femmes--Crimes contre--Guatemala. Guatemala--Histoire--1960-1996 (Guerre civile)--Aspect social. Guatemala--Histoire--1960-1996 (Guerre civile)--Atrocités. Atrocities. Maya women--Social conditions. Social aspects. Women--Crimes against. Guatemala. Femmes mayas--Conditions sociales--Guatemala--1985-.... Femmes mayas--Conditions sociales--Guatemala--1960-1996 (Guerre civile). Femmes mayas--Violence envers--Conditions sociales--Guatemala--1985-.... Femmes mayas--Violence envers--Conditions sociales--Guatemala--1960-1996 (Guerre civile). Conditions sociales--Guatemala--1945-.... Guatemala--1985-.... Guatemala--1960-1996 (Guerre civile). History. Women. Womyn.
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