Radical Indigenous Subjectivity: Maya Resurgence in Guatemala

Gere, Evelyn; MacNeill, Timothy

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“…(p. 18) La Violencia, with its physical and ideological attacks on Maya Guatemalans, would have a massive cultural and physical impact on Guatemala's indigenous population. Its force would be felt in the subjectivities of Maya cultural activists in the country (Warren 1998;Gere and MacNeill 2008), and in the life experiences of members of El Centro. Many indigenous people in the Western Highlands had lost family and/ or friends in the war (Warren 1998), and the members of El Centro were no exception.…”

Section: The Violencementioning

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Origins of a Maya Sustainable Development Movement

MacNeill

2020

Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America

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This chapter discusses the emergence of a strong indigenous challenge to mainstream development that emerged in Guatemala. The historical and global changes that contributed to this idea are explored in detail. So are the deep cultural roots of Maya cosmovision, in which this idea is embedded. The chapter focusses around the story of one particular Maya organization called El Centro Pluricultural para la Democracia (the Pluricultural Centre for Democracy), from which the indigenous idea of culturally sustainable development emerged.

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Section: The Violencementioning

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Origins of a Maya Sustainable Development Movement

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2020

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“…Following the categorization put forth by Gere and MacNeill (2008) and MacNeill (2014), the history of Guatemala will be divided into five periods in this discussion. These will be the early colonial period (1518-1821), the arguably postcolonial 1 period of exclusive nationalism , the Ten Years of Spring (1945-1954, and the postwar period (1990s-present).…”

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“…This is evident in the 1983 statement of one of the last despots, General Mejía Víctores, who bluntly stated, "we must get rid of the words 'Indigenous'and 'Indian'" (Wilson 1999, p. 27). This was attempted systematically as the public sphere was shut down, dissent was frozen, social exclusion became a matter of policy, legislative and judicial branches became subservient to the military, and repression was used as a substitute for law (Gere and MacNeill 2008;Warren 1998, pp. 3-33;Fischer 2001).…”

Section: The Violencementioning

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“…La Violencia, with its physical and ideological attacks on Maya Guatemalans, would have a massive cultural and physical impact on Guatemala's indigenous population. Its force would be felt in the subjectivities of Maya cultural activists in the country (Warren 1998;Gere and MacNeill 2008), and in the life experiences of members of El Centro. Many indigenous people in the Western Highlands had lost family and/ or friends in the war (Warren 1998), and the members of El Centro were no exception.…”

Section: The Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America

MacNeill¹

2020

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“…The revolutionary nature of the indigenous was not always a misrepresentation, but the characterization of all Maya as such was overblown. Repression was systematic as the public sphere was shutdown, dissent was frozen, social exclusion became a matter of policy, legislative and judicial branches became subservient to the military, and armed force was used as a substitute for law (Fischer, 2001; Gere and MacNeill, 2008; Warren, 1998).…”

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Culturally sustainable development: Maya culture, indigenous institutions, and alternative development in Guatemala

MacNeill¹

2014

Cultural Dynamics

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Recent scholarship has highlighted the ways in which new models of international and community development have been emerging in Latin America. Many of these have been associated with the idea of indigeneity. This article is meant to contribute to the larger attempt to understand this new turn in development thinking by studying one such model—enacted on a community level under the moniker of “culturally sustainable development” by a Maya organization in Guatemala. The case study and institutional ethnography exemplify the ways in which community development can be culturally situated, yet broadly informed. It also illuminates how the post-Washington consensus development policy environment provides opportunities for alternative indigenous development models at the same time as it imposes potentially debilitating constraints. Finally, it is argued that indigenous organizations often act in ways that are transmodern as opposed to anti-modern and that this transmodern positioning has allowed for some success in asserting alternative concepts of development and shaking free some of the snares of the global post-Washington consensus development policy climate.

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Radical Indigenous Subjectivity: Maya Resurgence in Guatemala

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Culturally sustainable development: Maya culture, indigenous institutions, and alternative development in Guatemala

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