Naming Security - Constructing Identity - ''Mayan-Women'' in Guatemala on the Eve of ''Peace''

Informationen zum Autor Maria Stern is Lecturer in the Department of Peace and Development Studies at the University of Göteborg, Sweden Klappentext Based on the voices of Mayan women, this book re-considers the connections between security and political identity and critically challenges stereotypical views of what might constitute 'security' in modern global politics. Zusammenfassung Based on the voices of Mayan women, this book re-considers the connections between security and political identity and critically challenges stereotypical views of what might constitute ‘security’ in modern global politics. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. Theorizing security and identity3. Reading Mayan women's in/security: a framework for analysis4. Reading in/security in the family/community context5. Constructing security-identity in Ladino-Mayan relations 6. Organizations/movements: building a collective self7. The political economy of Mayan women8. Mayan women as citizens - Guatemala a nation-state?9. Concluding comments

Product details

• Authors: Maria Stern, Stern Maria
• Assisted by: Emmanuel Pierre Guittet (Editor), Peter Lawler (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2005
• EAN: 9780719071164
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7116-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana; New Approaches to Conflict Analysis; New Approaches to Conflict Ana
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories