Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans

Stoll, David

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“…First, it shows that the government did react to rebel activities during the civil war. The question of whether state violence was triggered by rebel activities has been debated (Grandin 2011;see also Bamberger 1999;Stoll 1993Stoll , 1999Stromquist 2000). Relying on statistical data and methods of analysis, this article complements those previous studies by providing new empirical evidence on which to base judgment on this issue.…”

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Explaining State Violence in the Guatemalan Civil War: Rebel Threat and Counterinsurgency

Kubota

2017

Lat. Am. polit. soc.

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Literature on the Guatemalan Civil War has debated whether or not state violence was triggered by rebel activities. Did the government respond to each insurrection caused by the rebels, or did it blindly target regions where antigovernment antipathy and movements had historically prevailed? Because state violence was extensive during the civil war period, the dynamism of the war could have been the reason for its occurrence. Relying on the threat‐response model of state violence, this article argues that human rights violations occurred when the government perceived a rebel threat that would have seriously degraded its capability in future counterinsurgencies. The article employs propensity score matching to address the problem of confounding in empirical analysis, and reveals that rebel attacks, particularly those targeting security apparatus and resulting in human injury, increased the likelihood of state violence in the Guatemalan Civil War.

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Explaining State Violence in the Guatemalan Civil War: Rebel Threat and Counterinsurgency

Kubota

2017

Lat. Am. polit. soc.

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“…1). Stoll went on to assert that the situation in Guatemala, in particular the oppression by the military, was not as clear-cut as it had been presented by Menchú-as a sharp, dichoto mous, and violent conflict between government army and guerrilla forcesbut, instead, a more complex scenario in which peasants were caught in the middle, suffering at the hands of both the army and the guerrillas (Stoll 1999).…”

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Language and Truth in North Korea

Ryang¹

2021

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deserve, even after having written and published multiple volumes. Although writing itself can be a burden, the opportunity that it provides me, as an author, to express myself-and not simply my mental contemplations, but the material part of me as well-is a privilege that is, in my view, unsur passed by anything else, save for motherhood. For this book, I am once again haunted by the familiar question of whether or not I have put all of my soul into its creation.As with all of the other books that I have written, there are many individ uals who have helped me in my journey and many entities that facilitated my research. First and foremost, I would like to express my thanks to the National Science Foundation for granting me the Senior Research Grant (ID#BCS 1504957), which provided me with encouragement as well as the material basis for the research for this book. Jeffrey Mantz, the Program Director for Anthropology, with his trust in my scholarship, played a pivotal role in the conception as well as the completion of this project. I am forever indebted to Jeff.As part of the research toward this book, I met a number of former defec tors from North Korea. Although I will not name these individuals, I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to them here for the insights that they shared with me. An NGO involved in refugee support in North America (which I will also opt not to name) helped me to meet with the defectors and played a key role in facilitating this endeavor. I am truly grateful for its help.Preliminary thoughts on this book were shared with colleagues in Rice University's Department of Anthropology in 2016 when I gave a talk there. Faculty and students who were present gave me invaluable insights and posed thought-provoking questions. I am very grateful for that occasion. In 2018, Todd Henry invited me to the Transnational Korean Studies seminar at the

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“…The most famous example of such a form of ethnographic writing is undoubtedly I, Rigoberta Mench u: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1984), which was written by the Franco-Venezuelan anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray on the basis of 25 hours of intensive interviewing that she carried out with Mench u during the course of a single week in January 1982. The book subsequently became controversial (see Stoll, 1999;Beverley, 2004), at least partly because of the way that I, Rigoberta Mench u was researched and written. Presented as the voice of Mench u, the text was clearly edited and organised by Burgos-Debray in a particular manner, despite the fact that the latter had no ethnographic knowledge about Guatemala.…”

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Ethnographies and/of violence

Jones

Rodgers

2019

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This paper examines ethnography as both a methodological practice and a form of writing, and specifically how ethnography as a textual product may shape and be shaped by the methodological process. We argue that a critical discussion of this relationship is especially important in relation to the ethnography/ethnographies of violence. Examining a range of recent texts, we consider whether different forms of violence necessitate, or have prompted, different styles of ethnographic writing. The paper raises questions about how decisions to adopt particular styles of writing can affect the substance of empirical material, and we reflect on the use of testimonio, biography and quasi-novel, as well as issues of anonymity and composite characterisation. Finally, the paper introduces the special issue contributions from five authors, who were invited to contribute reflections on the multiple ways in which their field method has intersected with representation, textually and intellectually.

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Rigoberta Menchú and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans

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Explaining State Violence in the Guatemalan Civil War: Rebel Threat and Counterinsurgency

Explaining State Violence in the Guatemalan Civil War: Rebel Threat and Counterinsurgency

Language and Truth in North Korea

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