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Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements

Human Rights in the Maya Region: Global Politics, Cultural Contentions, and Moral Engagements

Pitarch, Pedro
Speed, Shannon
Leyva-Solano, Xochitl

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ISBN10: 0822342960
ISBN13: 9780822342960
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Dec 5 2008
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In recent years Latin American indigenous groups have regularly deployed the discourse of human rights to legitimate their positions and pursue their goals. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in the Maya region of Chiapas and Guatemala, where in the last two decades indigenous social movements have been engaged in ongoing negotiations with the state, and the presence of multinational actors has brought human rights to increased prominence. In this volume, scholars and activists examine the role of human rights in the ways that states relate to their populations, analyze conceptualizations and appropriations of human rights by Mayans in specific localities, and explore the relationship between the individualist and universal tenets of Western-derived concepts of human rights and various Mayan cultural understandings and political subjectivities.

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