Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala
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Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala
Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala

Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala

By
Stephen Henighan (Contributor) Candace Johnson (Contributor)  

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In 1996, the Guatemalan civil war ended with the signing of the Peace Accords, facilitated by the United Nations and promoted as a beacon of hope for a country with a history of conflict. Twenty years later, the new era of political protest in Guatemala is highly complex and contradictory: the persistence of colonialism, fraught indigenous-settler relations, political exclusion, corruption, criminal impunity, gendered violence, judicial procedures conducted under threat, entrenched inequality, as well as economic fragility. Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala examines the complexities of the quest for justice in Guatemala, and the realities of both new forms of resistance and long-standing obstacles to the rule of law in the human and environmental realms. Written by prominent scholars and activists, this book explores high-profile trials, the activities of foreign mining companies, attempts to prosecute war crimes, and cultural responses to injustice in literature, feminist performance art and the media. The challenges to human and environmental capacities for justice are constrained, or facilitated, by factors that shape culture, politics, society, and the economy. The contributors to this volume include Guatemalans such as the human rights activist Helen Mack Chang, the environmental journalist Magali Rey Rosa, former Guatemalan Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, as well as widely published Guatemala scholars.
Stephen Henighan is a professor and head of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at the University of Guelph. Candace Johnson is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph.
  • Contributor: Stephen Henighan
  • Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • ISBN13: 9781487522971
  • Number of Pages: 280
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x13mm
  • Packaged Weight: 420
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Release Date: 2018-10-17
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Stephen Henighan is a professor and head of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at the University of Guelph. Candace Johnson is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph.

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