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OverviewIn 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 Magal Rey Rosa, former Guatemalan Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, as well as widely published Guatemala scholars. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephen Henighan , Candace JohnsonPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.420kg ISBN: 9781487522971ISBN 10: 1487522975 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 17 October 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsHuman and Environmental Justice in Guatemala is a multi-textured collection, bringing together a number of distinct voices focused on both academia and activism in Guatemala. This collection makes a major contribution in several ways: it links the struggles for legal justice for human rights cases in Guatemala to the contemporary struggles over environmental rights; it shows how these struggles are transnational; and it shows how the impunity of the past is related to the impunity of the present, revealing how the different social struggles reverberate. - Elizabeth Oglesby, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona """Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala is a multi-textured collection, bringing together a number of distinct voices focused on both academia and activism in Guatemala. This collection makes a major contribution in several ways: it links the struggles for legal justice for human rights cases in Guatemala to the contemporary struggles over environmental rights; it shows how these struggles are transnational; and it shows how the impunity of the past is related to the impunity of the present, revealing how the different social struggles reverberate.""--Elizabeth Oglesby, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona" Author InformationStephen Henighan is a professor and head of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at the University of Guelph. Candace Johnson is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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