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The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala

The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Extractivism, and Maya Resistance in Guatemala

Batz, Giovanni

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AnthropologyCentral American HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520401735
ISBN13: 9780520401730
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 29 2024
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.91 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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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