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- Title
La minería: ¿otro sistema de despojo? Megaproyectos, "desarrollo" y ciudadanía en Guatemala: el caso de San Idelfonso Ixtahuacán, Huehuetenango.
- Authors
Dueholm Rasch, Elisabet
- Abstract
This article analyses the relation between mining conflicts, development, and processes of democratic participation in Guatemala. Through a case study in the municipality of San Idelfonso Ixtahuacán in the department of Huehuetenango, the article explores how cases of activism can be understood in relation to experiences of citizenship in Guatemala. The article firstly tells the story of the march of the miners of Ixtahuacán and how this march can be understood in the context of the internal armed conflict (1960-1996). Secondly, it explores how the armed conflict shapes the contemporary ways in which the population resists mining and how the Guatemalan state reacts to these protest actions.
- Subjects
GUATEMALA; MINES &; mineral resources -- Social aspects; MINERAL industries; ECONOMIC development; SOCIAL movements; GUATEMALAN Civil War, 1960-1996; INDIGENOUS peoples of Central America; GUATEMALAN politics &; government, 1985-; POLITICAL participation
- Publication
IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2013, Issue 49, p152
- ISSN
1577-3388
- Publication type
Case Study