Many Guatemalans speak of Mayan indigenous organizing as" a finger in the wound." Diane
Nelson explores the implications of this painfully graphic metaphor in her far-reaching study …

Rigoberta Menchú is a living legend, a young woman who said that her odyssey from a
Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was" the story of all poor Guatemalans." By …

Ethnic cleavages have rarely led to political organizing and sustained political conflict in
Latin America. However, recently a wave of rural organizing and movements has mobilized …

In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad
roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and …

" Green Wars challenges international conservation efforts, revealing through in-depth case
studies how" saving" the Maya Forest facilitates racialized dispossession. Megan Ybarra …

This book presents a new explanation of the rise, development and demise of social
movements and cycles of protest in autocracies; the conditions under which protest …

• It is unfortunate that the Spanish conquistadors and the Guatemalan army have not
exterminated the Indians once and for all. Now we have to finish them off using slower, even …

Desde finales de los 90, los campesinos mayas y zapatistas de la región agrícola de los
valles de la Selva Lacandona–las Cañadas-han ido construyendo prácticas educativas …

One of the more remarkable developments that took place in Latin America during the last
two decades of the twentieth century was the emergence of indigenous peoples as new …

Ironically, as many Western scholars have turned to constructivist theories to explain new
ethnic movements and forms of identity politics, the subjects of their studies have begun to …