Central America in the New Millennium : : Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy / / ed. by Jennifer L. Burrell, Ellen Moodie.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Mark,; Babb, Florence E.,; Binford, Leigh,; Boyer, Jefferson C.,; Burrell, Jennifer L.,; Fuentes, Claudia Dary,; Little, Walter E.,; Lyon, Sarah,; Mendez, Jennifer Bickham,; Montoya, Ainhoa,; Montoya, Rosario,; Moodie, Ellen,; Peñalva, Wilfredo Cardona,; Pineda, Baron,; Raventós, Ciska,; Tucker, Catherine,; Vivanco, Luis A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Burrell, Jennifer L.,; Moodie, Ellen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: CEDLA Latin America Studies ; 102
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (348 p.)

Most non-Central Americans think of the narrow neck between Mexico and Colombia in terms of dramatic past revolutions and lauded peace agreements, or sensational problems of gang violence and natural disasters. In this volume, the contributors examine regional circumstances within frames of democratization and neoliberalism, as they shape lived experiences of transition. The authors—anthropologists and social scientists from the United States, Europe, and Central America—argue that the process of regions and nations “disappearing” (being erased from geopolitical notice) is integral to upholding a new, post-Cold War world order—and that a new framework for examining political processes must be accessible, socially collaborative, and in dialogue with the lived processes of suffering and struggle engaged by people in Central America and the world in the name of democracy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ethnographic Visions of Millennial Central America -- Part I Imagining Democracy after the Cold War -- 1 Contradiction and Struggle under the Leftist Phoenix: Rural Nicaragua at the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Revolution -- 2 The Violence of Cold War Polarities and the Fostering of Hope: The 2009 Elections in Postwar El Salvador -- 3 Daring to Hope in the Midst of Despair: The Agrarian Question within the Anti-Coup Resistance Movement in Honduras -- 4. “My Heart Says NO”: Political Experiences of the Struggle against CAFTA-DR in Costa Rica -- 5. Democracy, Disenchantment, and the Future in El Salvador -- Part II Indigeneity, Race and Human Rights in the (Post) Multicultural Moment -- 6 Cuando Nos Internacionalizamos: Human Rights and Other Universals at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues -- 7 Acknowledging Racism and State Transformation in Postwar Guatemalan Society -- 8 Ephemeral Rights and Securitized Lives: Migration, Mareros, and Power in Millennial Guatemala -- Part III Dominant, Residual, and Emergent Economic Strategies -- 9 Honduras’s Smallholder Coffee Farmers, the Coffee Crisis, and Neoliberal Policy: Disjunctures in Knowledge and Conundrums for Development -- 10 Maya Handicraft Vendors’ CAFTA-DR Discourses: “Free Trade Is Not for Everyone in Guatemala” -- 11 “Here the Campesino Is Dead”: Can Central America’s Smallholders Be Saved? -- 12 Certifying Sustainable Tourism in Costa Rica: Environmental Governance and Accountability in a Transitional Era -- 13 Central America Comes to the “Cradle of Democracy”: Immigration and Neoliberalization in Williamsburg, Virginia -- Part IV A Place on the Map: Surviving on Pasts, Presents, and Futures -- 14 Migration, Tourism, and Post-Insurgent Individuality in Northern Morazán, El Salvador -- 15 Intimate Encounters: Sex and Power in Nicaraguan Tourism -- 16 Notes on Tourism, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Cultural Value in Honduras -- References -- Contributors -- Index