On Our Own Terms (eBook)

Development and Indigeneity in Cold War Guatemala

Sarah Foss (Autor)

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2022
334 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7034-8 (ISBN)

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During the Cold War, U.S. intervention in Latin American politics, economics, and society grew in scope and complexity, with diplomatic legacies evident in today's hemispheric policies. Development became a key form of intervention as government officials and experts from the United States and Latin America believed that development could foster hemispheric solidarity and security. In parts of Latin America, its implementation was especially intricate because recipients of these programs were diverse Indigenous peoples with their own politics, economics, and cultures. Contrary to project planners' expectations, Indigenous beneficiaries were not passive recipients but actively engaged with development interventions and, in the process, redefined racialized ideas about Indigeneity.Sarah Foss illustrates how this process transpired in Cold War Guatemala, spanning democratic revolution, military coups, and genocidal civil war. Drawing on previously unused sources such as oral histories, anthropologists' field notes, military records, municipal and personal archives, and a private photograph collection, Foss analyzes the uses and consequences of development and its relationship to ideas about race from multiple perspectives, emphasizing its historical significance as a form of intervention during the Cold War.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.11.2022
• Reihe/Serie: New Cold War History
• Reihe/Serie: New Cold War History
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones, 1 map
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: Agrarian reform in Guatemala • Citizenship in Guatemala • Community Development in Guatemala • Comunidades de población en Resistencia, Guatemala • Ethnic relations in Guatemala • Global Cold War • guatemalan civil war • Guatemalan Counterrevolution, 1954 • Guatemalan genocide • Guatemalan History, 20th Century • Guatemalan politics • Guatemalan Revolution, 1944 • History of anthropology • indigenismo • Indigenous people in Guatemala • Instituto Indigenista Interamericano • Instituto Indigenista Nacional de Guatemala • Intermediary figures • International Development • Latin American Cold War • Maryknoll Catholic Order • Mayas in Guatemala • Modernization • Poles of Development in Guatemala • Programa de Desarrollo de la Comunidad, Guatemala • Race in Guatemala • Racialization • United States-Guatemalan Foreign Relations
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7034-8 / 1469670348
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7034-8 / 9781469670348