The fourth invasion [electronic resource] : decolonizing histories, extractivism, and Maya resistance in Guatemala / Giovanni Batz ; foreword by B'o'q'ol Q'esal Tenam K'usal (Alcaldía Indígena de Cotzal).
2024
HM881
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Title
The fourth invasion [electronic resource] : decolonizing histories, extractivism, and Maya resistance in Guatemala / Giovanni Batz ; foreword by B'o'q'ol Q'esal Tenam K'usal (Alcaldía Indígena de Cotzal).
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ISBN
9780520401747 (electronic bk.)
0520401743 (electronic bk.)
9780520401730
0520401735
0520401743 (electronic bk.)
9780520401730
0520401735
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
HM881
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1455936833
Summary
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Fourth Invasion examines an Ixil Maya community's movement against the construction of one of the largest hydroelectric plants in Guatemala. The arrival of the Palo Viejo hydroelectric plant (built by the Italian corporation Enel Green Power) to the municipality of Cotzal highlighted the ongoing violence inflicted on Ixils by outsiders and the Guatemalan state. Locals referred to the building of the hydroelectric plant as the "new invasion" or "fourth invasion" for its similarity to preceding invasions: Spanish colonization, the creation of the plantation economy, and the state-led genocide during the Guatemalan armed conflict. Through a historical account of cyclical waves of invasions and resistance in Cotzal during the four invasions, Giovanni Batz argues that extractivist industries are a continuation of a colonial logic of extraction based on the displacement and destruction of Indigenous Peoples' territories and values that has existed since the arrival of the Spanish in 1524. The current movements in Cotzal, rooted in a long history of resistance, counter dominant narratives of Indigenous Peoples that often portray them as "conquered.".
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Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Historic Invasions
1. First Invasion
2. Second Invasion
3. Third Invasion
Part II: Fourth Invasion
4. Postwar Life and Megaprojects in the Ixil Region
5. Resistance against Enel
6. Dialogue and Deception
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Historic Invasions
1. First Invasion
2. Second Invasion
3. Third Invasion
Part II: Fourth Invasion
4. Postwar Life and Megaprojects in the Ixil Region
5. Resistance against Enel
6. Dialogue and Deception
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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