Global Coloniality of Power in Guatemala: Racism, Genocide, Citizenship

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In this engaged critique of the geopolitics of knowledge, Egla Martínez Salazar examines the genocide and other types of state terror such as racialized feminicide and the attack on Maya childhood, which occurred in Guatemala of the 1980s and ’90s with the full improve of Western colonial powers. Drawing on a careful analysis of recently declassified state documents, thematic life histories, and compelling interviews with Maya and Mestizo men and women survivors, Martinez Salazar shows how people resisting oppression were converted into the politically abject. On the center of her book is an examination of how coloniality survives colonialism—a a very powerful point for understanding how up to date hegemonic practices and ideologies such as equality, democracy, human rights, peace, and citizenship are deeply contested terrains, for they create nominal equality from practical social inequality. At the same time as many within the global North continue to enjoy the advantages of this domination, millions, if not billions, in both the South and North have been persecuted, controlled, and exterminated throughout their struggles for a more just world.

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