Julie Gibbings (University of Edinburgh)

Our Time is Now (eBook, PDF)

Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala

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Produktbeschreibung

Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their 'present' is our 'past' - and reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an orderly, natural process of evolution towards modernity. Our Time is Now reveals that modernity particularly appealed to those excluded from power, precisely because of its aspirational and future orientation. In the process, marginalized peoples creatively imagined diverse political futures that redefined the racialized and temporal terms of modernity. Employing a critical reading of a wide variety of previously untapped sources, Julie Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of time and history as well as practices of modern politics, economics, and social norms were central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2020
• ISBN-13: 9781108808538
• Artikelnr.: 70912552

Autorenporträt

Julie Gibbings is a Lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: History Will Write Our Names; I. Translating Modernities: 1. To Live without King or Castle: Maya Patriarchal Liberalism on the Eve of a New Era
1860-1871; 2. Possessing Sentiments and Ideas of Progress: Coffee Planting
Land Privatization
and Liberal Reform
1871-1885; 3. Indolence is the Death of Character: The Making of Race and Labor
1885-1898; 4. El Q'eq Roams at Night: Plantation Sovereignty and Racial Capitalism
1898-1914; II. Aspirations and Anxieties of Unfulfilled Modernities: 5. On the Throne of Minerva: The Making of Urban Modernities
1908-1920; 6. Freedom of the Indian: Maya Rights and Citizenship in a Democratic Experiment
1920-1932; 7. Possessing Tezulutlán: Splitting Time in Dictatorship
1931-1939; 8. Now Owners of Our Land: Nationalism
History
and Memory in Revolution
1939-1954.