UID:
almahu_9949890776502882
Format:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520401747
Content:
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.".
Note:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Batz, Giovanni The Fourth Invasion Berkeley : University of California Press,c2024 ISBN 9780520401730
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
