Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala / / ed. by Stephen Henighan, Candace Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Chang, Helen Mack,; Deonandan, Kalowatie,; Henighan, Stephen,; Johnson, Candace,; Lovell, W. George,; Nolin, Catherine,; Palacios, Rita M.,; Paz Y Paz, Claudia,; Rosa, Magalí Rey,; Tatham, Rebecca,
• HerausgeberIn: Henighan, Stephen,; Johnson, Candace,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict. Twenty years later, the new era of political protest in Guatemala is highly complex and contradictory: the persistence of colonialism, fraught indigenous-settler relations, political exclusion, corruption, criminal impunity, gendered violence, judicial procedures conducted under threat, entrenched inequality, as well as economic fragility. Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala examines the complexities of the quest for justice in Guatemala, and the realities of both new forms of resistance and long-standing obstacles to the rule of law in the human and environmental realms. Written by prominent scholars and activists, this book explores high-profile trials, the activities of foreign mining companies, attempts to prosecute war crimes, and cultural responses to injustice in literature, feminist performance art and the media. The challenges to human and environmental capacities for justice are constrained, or facilitated, by factors that shape culture, politics, society, and the economy. The contributors to this volume include Guatemalans such as the human rights activist Helen Mack Chang, the environmental journalist Magalí Rey Rosa, former Guatemalan Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, as well as widely published Guatemala scholars.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part One: Imagining Justice -- 1. Introduction: Transitional, Transnational, and Distributive Justice in Post-War Guatemala -- 2. Memory, Truth, Justice: The Crisis of the Living in the Search for Guatemala’s Dead and Disappeared -- 3. Transnational and Local Solidarities in the Struggle for Justice: Choc versus Padilla -- Part Two: Justice in Practice -- 4. A Diary of Canadian Mining in Guatemala, 2004–2013 -- 5. Impunity in Guatemala: A Never-Ending Battle -- 6. Politics, Institutions, and the Prospects for Justice in Guatemala -- Part Three: Cultural Responses to Injustice -- 7. Scars That Run Deep: Performing Violence and Memory in the Work of Regina José Galindo and Rosa Chávez -- 8. Human and Environmental Justice in the Work of Rodrigo Rey Rosa -- 9. Press Clippings: The Daily News in Guatemala -- 10. Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index