The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Postconflict Neoliberal State

Granovsky-Larsen, Simon

doi:10.1177/0094582x17713752

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“…With World Bank blessings and support, Guatemala immediately reformed and rehabilitated national laws that facilitated large-scale mining, primarily in gold and nickel (see e.g. Dearden, 2012;Granovsky-Larsen, 2017;Hale, 2011).…”

Section: Natural Resource Extraction and Guatemala Liberia And Bougainvillementioning

confidence: 99%

Whose recovery? IFI prescriptions for postwar states

Cohn¹,

Duncanson

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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Section: Natural Resource Extraction and Guatemala Liberia And Bougainvillementioning

confidence: 99%

Whose recovery? IFI prescriptions for postwar states

Cohn¹,

Duncanson

2020

Review of International Political Economy

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“…a racialized discriminatory regime, as is made evident by the highly unequal distribution of land (Granovsky-Larsen, 2019). In these struggles, representatives of the church of the theology of liberation were vital to shaping the battle and organizing the people via grassroots communities.…”

Section: Climate-justice Narratives Emerging In Modevite and The Counmentioning

confidence: 99%

Between divine and social justice: emerging climate-justice narratives in Latin American socio-environmental struggles

Plaza

2020

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. This exploratory study traces the emergence of climate justice claims linked to narratives of Latin American social movements for the defence of life and territory. I argue that in post-colonial settings, religious and historical injustices and socio-cultural factors act as constitutive elements of environmental and climate justice understandings which are grounded in territories immersed in neo-extractivism conflicts. Environmental and climate justice conceptualizations have overlooked the religious fact present in many Latin American socio-environmental movements. As a result, the intertwined notions of divine justice and social justice are unacknowledged. To illustrate this claim, I examine socio-environmental and climate justice claims in a cross-border region between Guatemala and Chiapas. This region has a common ethnic background but divergent historical trajectories across the border. Diverse nuances and intensities adopted by environmental and climate justice practices and narratives on both sides of the border are examined. The case study reveals the importance of religion as a force for collective action and as a channel for the promotion of place-based notions of climate justice. The text calls for the examination of the religious factor, in its multiple expressions, in the theories of climate and environmental justice.

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“…And because of its broad scope, defense of territory further serves as a platform for convergence-of issues, of movements, and of campaigns. Even if a thorough mapping of social justice movements is beyond the reach of this paper (see [31] for a detailed analysis of rural Guatemalan movements), it is relevant to mention a few key actors-especially as changes at the highest political levels are often the direct result of political actions from below. For the purposes of this discussion, examples of movements engaging with 'defense of territory', and that are using or have the political will or potential to use the Tenure Guidelines, are highlighted here at scale.…”

Section: Trajectories and Actors Of Land Politics In Guatemalamentioning

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The Tenure Guidelines in Policy and Practice: Democratizing Land Control in Guatemala

Tramel

2019

Land

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This paper explores the challenges for democratizing land and natural resource control in Guatemala through use of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests (Tenure Guidelines). This international human rights instrument comes at a critical moment, in which the current global land rush has shaped contemporary agrarian transformation with serious implications for the right to food and control of natural resources. The Tenure Guidelines provide us with a unique opportunity to put land and natural resource tenure squarely under the prescriptions of international human rights law, rather than allowing tenure to be subsumed by a narrow understanding of property rights based on civil and merchant law. In Guatemala, we are witnessing a political opening, where the government has incorporated the language of the Tenure Guidelines into its regulatory framework unlike any other country in Latin America. At the same time, the world watches on while a slow-motion coup engulfs the Central American country, reflecting a global trend of gutting democracies and coopting the language and legislation meant to protect them. Thus, the implementation of the Tenure Guidelines is strongly contested by state and corporate actors seeking to use the instrument in order to gain political legitimacy for the expansion of agribusiness like oil palm and sugarcane, and other forms of extractive industry. This paper’s findings indicate that when applied together with a rights-based approach, the Tenure Guidelines are a powerful social and political tool. Such is especially true of the most marginalized populations who require protection and respect for their existing tenure rights, promotion of reforms for better access to and control over land and resources, and restoration of tenure rights resulting from displacement or dispossession.

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The Guatemalan Campesino Movement and the Postconflict Neoliberal State

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

Whose recovery? IFI prescriptions for postwar states

Whose recovery? IFI prescriptions for postwar states

Between divine and social justice: emerging climate-justice narratives in Latin American socio-environmental struggles

The Tenure Guidelines in Policy and Practice: Democratizing Land Control in Guatemala

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