Between a rock and a hard place: rural transformations and migrant communities in Guatemala

Aguilar-Støen, Mariel

doi:10.1080/02255189.2019.1666358

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“…This article builds on anthropological studies of aspiration to explore how imaginaries of post-agrarian futures shift the actors, scales and terms of rural politics. In the words of anthropologist Gina Crivello, "'aspirations' are about much more than abstract 'futures'; they orient actions in the present" (2015,39; see also Aguilar-Støen 2019;Appadurai 2004;Holloway, Brown, and Pimlott-Wilson 2009;Smith 2013). The rural subjects at the centre of this article aspire for tourism development to reconsolidate communities, following decades of outmigration under a neoliberal agrarian order.…”

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Post-agrarian aspirations: tourism and rural politics in Ecuador

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2019

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'ét

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This ethnographic study examines post-agrarian aspirations and rural politics in Ecuador. After decades of urban outmigration under a neoliberal agrarian order, many rural places have witnessed efforts to develop local tourism economies as a possibility to transcend stigmatised agrarian livelihoods and to (re)constitute communities. We build on anthropological studies of aspiration to explore how visions of post-agrarian futures are shifting the actors, scales and terms of rural politics in the present. Through two case studies, we observe how state actors have come to re-inscribe their role within post-agrarian imaginaries, partially rewriting the terms of state legitimacy in rural places. RÉSUMÉCette étude ethnographique examine les aspirations post-agraires et la politique rurale en Équateur. Après des décennies d'émigration urbaine sous un ordre agraire néolibéral, de nombreuses zones rurales sont le théâtre d'efforts visant à développer les économies touristiques locales pour transcender des modes de vie agraires stigmatisés et (re) constituer des communautés. Nous nous appuyons sur des études anthropologiques portant sur les aspirations pour explorer la manière dont les visions de l'avenir post-agraire agissent, au présent, sur les acteurs, les échelles et les paramètres politiques en milieu rural. À l'aide de deux études de cas, nous observons comment les acteurs étatiques ont reformulé leur rôle en fonction d'imaginaires post-agraires, modifiant partiellement les termes de la légitimité de l'État en zones rurales.

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Post-agrarian aspirations: tourism and rural politics in Ecuador

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2019

Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'ét

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“…In spite of democratization and efforts at hegemony, the 1990s also saw the dismantling of remaining state regulations and moved El Salvador and Guatemala from the traditional agrarian export model to a more extractivist agrarian system (Granovsky-Larsen, 2018; Alonso-Fradejas, 2012; Almeida, 2015;. The removing of tariffs and capital controls under the Central American & Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) (Spalding, 2014) and the onset of structural adjustment coincided with the virtual deindustrialization of the coastal regions where secondary manufacturing had been concentrated (Cáceres, 2018;Robinson, 2004;Van der Borgh, 2000) and the transition to a combination service and extraction economy, subsidized by the valorization of migrant workers (Aguilar-Støen, 2020;Almeida, 2015;Garni & Wehyer, 2013).…”

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Crisis Eruptions: A Comparative Analysis of Right-wing Populism in El Salvador and Guatemala

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This thesis project is a comparative analysis of contemporary right-wing populism in El Salvador and Guatemala, looking at the Nayib Bukele government in El Salvador and the Jimmy Morales and Alejandro Giammattei governments in Guatemala. Using a comparative historical approach and a neo-Gramscian theoretical framework, I situate the two case studies in the context of the global rise of right-wing or "authoritarian" populist movements and argue that they should be understood as arising out of an organic crisis in the neoliberal model of capitalism. In order to analyze the multi-faceted nature of the relationship between organic crisis and populism, I use a neo-Gramscian, institutionalist approach drawing on a multi-disciplinary historical review, news media, economic reports, and secondary fieldwork for evidence.

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Punching above their weight: Opposition to mining and Xinka politics in Guatemala

Aguilar-Støen

Sveinsdóttir²

2024

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Between a rock and a hard place: rural transformations and migrant communities in Guatemala

Cited by 9 publications

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Post-agrarian aspirations: tourism and rural politics in Ecuador

Post-agrarian aspirations: tourism and rural politics in Ecuador

Crisis Eruptions: A Comparative Analysis of Right-wing Populism in El Salvador and Guatemala

Punching above their weight: Opposition to mining and Xinka politics in Guatemala

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