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 persi...

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