Gavin Weston

Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global (Re)Production of Collective Violence

A Tale of Two Lynchings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala. The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to understand national and global patterns of mob-based vigilantism and how diverse factors are funnelled into singular acts of violence. Gavin Weston critically engages with the discussion of Guatemalan lynchings as a form of post-conflict violence alongside other less direct chains of causation. Lynchings have complex, tiered causations based in contestations regarding ideas and provision of justice. Underlying social problems and similarities in the way lynchings spread through talk and media make them relatively anticipatable in certain contexts and suggest possible spaces for mitigation against their viral spread. This volume will be relevant to Latin Americanists and those interested in the anthropology and sociology of violence, post-conflict violence, and peace studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9780367784218
• ISBN-10: 0367784211
• Artikelnr.: 61211049

Autorenporträt

Gavin Weston is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Introduction: Two lynchings
a microcosm Chapter 2
Todos Santos Chapter 3
A Post
war Phenomenon? Chapter 4
Vigilantism, Dissonance, and the Guatemalan State Chapter 5
Scapegoats, Gossip, and Rumour Chapter 6
Dissemination: Vigilantism, and the Media Chapter 7
The Blurred Boundaries of Violence Chapter 8
Concluding thoughts/lingering problems