Central America in the New Millennium (eBook, PDF)

Living Transition and Reimagining Democracy
Redaktion: Burrell, Jennifer L.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Most non-Central Americans think of the narrow neck between Mexico and Colombia in terms of dramatic past revolutions and lauded peace agreements, or sensational problems of gang violence and natural disasters. In this volume, the contributors examine regional circumstances within frames of democratization and neoliberalism, as they shape lived experiences of transition. The authors-anthropologists and social scientists from the United States, Europe, and Central America-argue that the process of regions and nations "disappearing" (being erased from geopolitical notice) is integral to upholding a new, post-Cold War world order-and that a new framework for examining political processes must be accessible, socially collaborative, and in dialogue with the lived processes of suffering and struggle engaged by people in Central America and the world in the name of democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857457530
• Artikelnr.: 39603843

Autorenporträt

Ellen Moodie is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures, Maps and Tables
Map of Central America
Introduction: Ethnographic Visions of Millennial Central America
Jennifer L. Burrell and Ellen Moodie
Part I: Imagining Democracy After the Cold War
Chapter 1. Contradiction and Struggle Under the Leftist Phoenix: Rural
Nicaragua at the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Revolution
Rosario Montoya
Chapter 2. The Violence of Cold War Polarities and the Fostering of Hope:
The 2009 Elections in Postwar El Salvador
Ainhoa Montoya
Chapter 3. Daring to Hope in the Midst of Despair: The Agrarian Question
within the Anti-Coup Resistance Movement in Honduras
Jefferson C. Boyer and Wilfredo Cardona Peñalva
Chapter 4. "My Heart Says NO": Political Experiences of the Struggle
Against CAFTA-DR in Costa Rica
Ciska Raventós
Chapter 5. Democracy, Disenchantment and the Future in El Salvador
Ellen Moodie
Part II: Indigeneity, Race and Human Rights in the (Post) Multicultural
Moment
Chapter 6. Cuando Nos Internacionalizamos: Human Rights and Other
Universals at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Baron Pineda
Chapter 7. Acknowledging Racism and State Transformation in Postwar
Guatemalan Society
Claudia Dary Fuentes
Chapter 8. Ephemeral Rights and Securitized Lives: Migration, Mareros and
Power in Millennial Guatemala
Jennifer L. Burrell
Part III: Dominant, Residual and Emergent Economic Strategies
Chapter 9. Honduras's Smallholder Coffee Farmers, the Coffee Crisis, and
Neoliberal Policy: Disjunctures in Knowledge and Conundrums for Development
Catherine Tucker
Chapter 10. Maya Handicraft Vendors' CAFTA-DR Discourses:  "Free Trade Is
Not For Everyone in Guatemala"
Walter E. Little
Chapter 11. "Here The Campesino is Dead": Can Central America's
Smallholders Be Saved?
Sarah Lyon
Chapter 12. Certifying Sustainable Tourism in Costa Rica: Environmental
Governance and Accountability in a Transitional Era 
Luis Vivanco
Chapter 13. Central America Comes to the "Cradle of Democracy": Immigration
and Neoliberalization in Williamsburg, Virginia
Jennifer Bickham Mendez
Part IV: A Place on the Map: Surviving on Pasts, Presents and Futures
Chapter 14. Migration, Tourism and Post-Insurgent Individuality in Northern
Morazán, El Salvador
Leigh Binford
Chapter 15. Intimate Encounters: Sex and Power in Nicaraguan Tourism
Florence E. Babb
Chapter 16. Notes on Tourism, Ethnicity and the Politics of Cultural Value
in Honduras
Mark Anderson
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index