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Beyond Repair? explores Mayan women’s agency in the search for redress for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state in the early 1980s at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book draws on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q’eqchi’, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women who are seeking truth, justice, and reparation for the violence they experienced.
List of contents
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Documenting Protagonism: “I can fly with large wings”
2 Recounting Protagonism: “No one can take this thorn from my soul”
3 Judicializing Protagonism: “What will the law say?”
4 Repairing Protagonism: “Carrying a heavy load”
5 Accompanying Protagonism: “Facing two directions”
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
ALISON CROSBY is an associate professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and the director of the Centre for Feminist Research at York University, Toronto, Canada.
M. BRINTON LYKES is a professor of community-cultural psychology and co-director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, in Massachusetts. She is the author or editor of several books, including The New Deportations Delirium: Interdisciplinary Responses.
