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Record Nr.

UNINA9910886332903321

Autore

Batz Giovanni

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9780520401747

0520401743

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Disciplina

303.48/409728172

Soggetti

Indigenous peoples

Guatemala History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Historic Invasions -- 1. First Invasion -- 2. Second Invasion -- 3. Third Invasion -- Part II: Fourth Invasion -- 4. Postwar Life and Megaprojects in the Ixil Region -- 5. Resistance against Enel -- 6. Dialogue and Deception -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.    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.".