Human and environmental justice in Guatemala /

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Imprint:Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
©2018
Description:1 online resource (xi, 263 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13512818
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Other authors / contributors:Henighan, Stephen, 1960- editor, contributor.
Johnson, Candace, 1971- editor, contributor.
Deonandan, Kalowatie, 1958- contributor.
Lovell, W. George (William George), 1951- contributor.
Mack Chang, Helen, contributor.
Maldonado, Lisa, contributor.
Nolin, Catherine, contributor.
Palacios, Rita M., contributor.
Paz y Paz Bailey, Claudia, contributor.
Rey Rosa A., Magalí, contributor.
Tatham, Rebecca, contributor.
ISBN:9781487519001
1487519001
9781487522971
1487522975
9781487503895
148750389X
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 19, 2018).
Summary:"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"--
Other form:Print version: Human and environmental justice in Guatemala. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] 9781487522971