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Item type:Publication, Making meaning of women's persistence and protagonism in the wake of genocidal violence: Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women of Chajul, Guatemala(SAGE Publishing, 2022-08-17)Fifteen Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women of Chajul, Guatemala, were interviewed 17 years after publishing their feminist participatory action photovoice research. Their book documents gross violations of human rights during nearly 36 years of armed conflict and their memories of survivance and persistence. A constructivist grounded theory analysis of in-depth interviews with these Maya Ixil and K’iche’ women contributed to the authors’ “bottom up” meaning making of the women's narratives – stories that reflect memories of participatory, community-based workshops and community actions in the wake of genocidal violence. The latter included performances of: presence despite absences; profound losses amidst ongoing suffering; renewed and transformative engagement with traditional beliefs and practices; women's protagonism evidenced through enhanced skills; new capacities performed in multiple contexts within and beyond their community's borders. We analyze these narratives of protagonism and persistence to elucidate some of the multiple contributions of long-term feminist community-based accompaniment and participatory processes as resources for rethreading life and wellbeing in the wake of war. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Entangled territorial controversies: Contesting mining, territorial ordering, and authority in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala(Elsevier Ltd, 2024-10-01)This article examines territorial disputes in the Palajunoj Valley of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala's second largest city located in the western highlands. Drawing on our field research, we explore how dominant territory-making practices and indigenous-led resistance play out over an emerging municipal territorial ordering plan that gets interwoven with disputes over large-scale mining, waste disposal, and municipal authority amid wider urban–rural marginalization and tensions. We innovatively combine the notions of territory, territorial ordering governmentality, and the echelons (or levels) of rights framework to unpack the different layers on which dominant actor alliances’ territorialization strategies and the responses of territorial defense movements emerge. Departing from an understanding that the disputes in the valley are not only about resources, but also entwine struggles over rules, authority, and discourses, we make a twofold argument. First, we argue that the ruling-group's existing territory-making practices and new territorial ordering techniques coincide across the echelons, building on and reinforcing stark power imbalances. Second, we argue that indigenous-led, territory-based resistance movements engage in diverse strategies of contestation to articulate shared concerns around externally-imposed territorial interventions across echelons, but are challenged by micropolitical fragmentation, threats and instances of violence, and fragile multi-scalar support networks. Our analysis suggests that future territorial defense depends on the strengthening of multi-scalar and multi-actor alliances that – while acknowledging difference and tensions within and among resisting actors − devise their strategies along the four interconnected echelons and articulate their concerns in converging yet plural resistance strategies. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Transfer and interruptions in anticorruption policies in Guatemala (2013–2019)(SAGE Publishing, 2024-10-23)Guatemala ranks last in the region in terms of the penetration and perception of state corruption ranking 149th out of 180 countries. Therefore it has promoted anti-corruption initiatives such as the International Commission Against Impunity (CICIG 2007–2019). The CICIG was a unique public policy initiative worldwide with international community support and significant progress in reducing corruption. However what were the main failures encountered during the implementation process of the CICIG? This comparative individual case study analyzes two factors: sustainability and capacity building. The explanations for the CICIG’s disruptions are not understood exclusively as the absence of state capacity much less because of its design. My qualitative research delves into endogenous political contexts (client networks resilience). The research identifies some fissures in implementation and draws lessons that can be extrapolated to public policy in Latin America. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Clientelism and Vote Buying in Latin America: Lessons from Comparing Paraguay and Guatemala(Universidad de Los Andes, 2025-04-16)Objective/context: Four decades after democratization in Latin America, particularistic ties—such as clientelism and vote buying—continue to exist between politicians and citizens in the region. This article seeks to understand how these practices have evolved over recent decades. Methodology: This study first draws on an original database encompassing all empirical articles from twenty-two Latin American political science journals and six Latin Americanist journals published between 2010 and 2022. It then examines two prototypical case studies based on secondary literature and press reviews. Conclusions: This article puts forward two main arguments. On one hand, clientelism and vote buying are relatively understudied in the region's leading journals, and there are distinct conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches in Spanish- and English-language scholarship. On the other hand, the article argues that, with the weakening of Latin American political parties, the overall logic of particularistic ties in the region is shifting from party-based clientelism (as seen in Paraguay) toward vote buying through independent local leaders (as seen in Guatemala). Originality: This article contributes to the literature on the transformation of particularistic ties and how they are studied in Latin America. First, it provides an original content analysis of Latin American and Latin Americanist journals from 2010 to 2022. Second, it synthesizes the main features of clientelism and vote buying in Paraguay and Guatemala—two relatively understudied cases that, despite showing high levels of particularistic practices, serve as prototypical examples of these two phenomena.2