Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala

Informationen zum Autor David Stoll Klappentext This book challenges how the human rights movement thinks about a country notorious for rightwing terrorism. David Stoll's reinterpretation of the civil war in Guatemala focuses on the Ixil Mayas of the Western highlands. Based on their testimony! he attributes Ixil support for guerrillas in the early 1980s not to revolutionary impluses but to dual violence -- the coercive pressures of military confrontation which Ixils describe as "living between two fires." As a study of a peasant neutralism under crossfire! Between Two Armies questions whether confrontational forms of human rights organizing reflect the wishes of survivors trying to rebuild civil society! that is! political space to make their own decisions. Zusammenfassung Challenging the views of human rights activists! Stoll argues that the Ixils who supported Guatemalan rebels in the early 1980's did so because they were caught in the crossfire between the guerillas and the army! not because revolutionary violence expressed community aspirations.

Product details

• Authors: David Stoll, Stoll David
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.1994
• EAN: 9780231081825
• ISBN: 978-0-231-08182-5
• No. of pages: 383
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Guatemala, Ethnic Studies, History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Revolutionary groups & movements, History of the Americas, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General