Beyond Repair? - Mayan Women's Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
Release date:	April 2019
Authors:	Alison Crosby • M. Brinton Lykes
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	284
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-9896-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8135-9896-6
Barcode:	9780813598963

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