In this collection of essays, leading scholars based throughout the Americas examine postwar Guatemalan society from varied perspectives, including those of ethnography, history, geography, politics, and economics.

In this collection of essays, leading scholars based throughout the Americas examine postwar Guatemalan society from varied perspectives, including those of ethnography, history, geography, politics, and economics.

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Aftermath: Harvests of Violence and Histories of the Future / Carlota McAllister and Diane M. Nelson 1Part I: Surveying the Landscape: Histories of the Present1. Five Hundred Years / Greg Grandin 492. Difficult Complementarity: Relations between the Mayan and Revolutionary Movements / Santiago Bastos and Manuela Camus 713. Testimonial Truths and Revolutionary Mysteries / Carlota McAllister 93Part II: Market Freedoms and Market Forces: The New Biopolitical Economy4. Development and/as Dispossession: Elite Networks and Extractive Industry in the Franja Transversal del Norte / Luis Solano 1195. "We're No Longer Dealing with Fools": Violence, Labor, and Governance on the South Coast / Elizabeth Oglesby 1436. "A Dignified Community Where We Can Live": Violence, Law, and Debt in Nueva Cajolá's Struggle for Land / Irmalicia Velásquez Nimatuj 170Part III. Means into Ends: Neoliberal Transparency and Its Shadows7. What Happened to the Revolution? Guatemala City's Maras from Life to Death / Deborah T. Levenson 1958. The Long War in Colotenango: Guerrillas, Army, and Civil Patrols / Paul Kobrak 2189. After Lynching / Jennifer Burrell 24110. Labor Contractors to Military Specialists to Development Experts: Marginal Elites and Postwar State Formation / Matilde González Izás 261Part IV: Whither the Future? Postwar Aspirations and Identifications11. 100 Percent Omnilife: Health, Economy, and the End/s of War / Diane M. Nelson 28512. The Shumo Challenge: White Class Privilege and the Post-Race, Post-Genocide Alliances of Cosmopolitanism from Below / Jorge Ramón González Ponciano 30713. A Generation after the Refugees' Return: Are We There Yet? / Paula Worby 330Works Cited 353Contributors 377Index 383