Regenerating Maya‐Mam ways of governing, Indigenous emancipatory politics in the age of the extractive imperative
Karine Vanthuyne,
Marie Christine Dugal
Abstract:The literature on the recent exponential growth of the extractive industry in Latin America and beyond has documented the various processes through which this sector has been empowered to expand its frontier, as well as the strategies that affected communities employ to resist it. However, in this article we instead focus on how some Maya‐Mam residents of San Miguel Ixtahuacán understood and addressed the divisive effects of the Marlin Mine, which operated between 2005 and 2017 and was Guatemala's largest open… Show more
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