Stephen Henighan, Candace Johnson

Human and Environmental Justice in Guatemala

Herausgeber: Henighan, Stephen; Johnson, Candace

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the struggle for justice and human rights in the aftermath of armed conflict, and in the context of impunity. Topics include the justice system, foreign mining companies and the environment, democratic transition and cultural responses to the struggle for justice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 432g
• ISBN-13: 9781487522971
• ISBN-10: 1487522975
• Artikelnr.: 52422401

Autorenporträt

Stephen Henighan is a professor and head of Spanish and Hispanic Studies at the University of Guelph. Candace Johnson is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Imagining Justice
Chapter One: Introduction. Transitional, Transnational, and Distributive
Justice in Guatemala
Candace Johnson (University of Guelph)
Chapter Two: Memory-Truth-Justice: The Crisis of the Living in the Search
for Guatemala’s Dead and Disappeared
Catherine Nolin (University of Northern British Columbia)
Chapter Three: Transnational and Local Solidarities in the Struggle for
Justice: Choc versus Padilla
Kalowatie Deonandan (University of Saskatchewan) and Rebecca Tatham
(University of Saskatchewan)
Part Two: Justice in Practice
Chapter Four :A Diary of Canadian Mining in Guatemala, 2004-2013
Magalí Rey Rosa (Savia: School of Ecological Thought)
Chapter Five: Impunity in Guatemala: A Never-Ending Battle
Helen Mack Chang (The Myrna Mack Foundation)
Chapter Six: Politics, Institutions, and the Prospects for Justice in
Guatemala
Claudia Paz y Paz (Organization of American States)
Part Three: Cultural Responses to Injustice
Chapter Seven: Scars that Run Deep: Performing Violence and Memory in the
Work of Regina José Galindo and Rosa Chávez
Rita M. Palacios (Concordia University)
Chapter Eight: Human and Environmental Justice in the Work of Rodrigo Rey
Rosa
Stephen Henighan (University of Guelph)
Chapter Nine: Press Clippings: The Daily News in Guatemala
W. George Lovell (Queen’s University)
Chapter Ten: Conclusion
Stephen Henighan (University of Guelph) and Candace Johnson (University of
Guelph)