Our Time is Now

Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala

AvJulie Gibbings

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their 'present' is our 'past' - and reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an orderly, natural process of evolution towards modernity. Our Time is Now reveals that modernity particularly appealed to those excluded from power, precisely because of its aspirational and future orientation. In the process, marginalized peoples creatively imagined diverse political futures that redefined the racialized and temporal terms of modernity. Employing a critical reading of a wide variety of previously untapped sources, Julie Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of time and history as well as practices of modern politics, economics, and social norms were central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolution.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-04-14
Mått:151 x 227 x 26 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Latin American Studies
Antal sidor:428
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108733489

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Julie Gibbings is a Lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

Recensioner i media

'It is hard to write a modern Guatemalan history that is a not just a grim march to the genocide of the 1980s, but this exciting, meticulous book does it spellbindingly. Refusing to universalize colonizing linear time, Gibbings pries open the archive to engage the pluriverse of transforming Mayan experience with salutary attention to gender. While rooted lovingly in place, this is a profound analysis of plantationocene worlding that will resonate for anyone concerned with today's global crisis of racialized climate collapse.' Diane Nelson, author of Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life After Genocide

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: History Will Write Our Names; I. Translating Modernities: 1. To Live without King or Castle: Maya Patriarchal Liberalism on the Eve of a New Era, 1860-1871; 2. Possessing Sentiments and Ideas of Progress: Coffee Planting, Land Privatization, and Liberal Reform, 1871-1885; 3. Indolence is the Death of Character: The Making of Race and Labor, 1885-1898; 4. El Q'eq Roams at Night: Plantation Sovereignty and Racial Capitalism, 1898–1914; II. Aspirations and Anxieties of Unfulfilled Modernities: 5. On the Throne of Minerva: The Making of Urban Modernities, 1908–1920; 6. Freedom of the Indian: Maya Rights and Citizenship in a Democratic Experiment, 1920–1932; 7. Possessing Tezulutlán: Splitting Time in Dictatorship, 1931-1939; 8. Now Owners of Our Land: Nationalism, History, and Memory in Revolution, 1939-1954.