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Author Copeland, Nicholas, author

Title The democracy development machine : neoliberalism, radical pessimism, and authoritarian populism in Mayan Guatemala / Nicholas Copeland
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages)
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents "They committed no crime" : developing democratic memories -- Nos falta capacidad : training enterprising selves -- The capacity for democracy : transforming democratic imaginaries -- Radical pessimism : neoliberal democratic atmosphere -- Parties and projects : democratizing sovereign violence -- Cruel populism : mutilating the people
Summary "Examines how democracy and development operate alongside violence as a governing assemblage and how this 'machine' both articulated and derailed the struggles for empowerment of rural Mayas in Guatemala"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Democracy, development, Mayan politics, neoliberalism, Sampedranos
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2020)
In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
Subject Mayas -- Guatemala -- Politics and government
Mayas -- Guatemala -- Government relations
Democracy -- Guatemala
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Democracy
Economic history
Mayas -- Government relations
Mayas -- Politics and government
Politics and government
SUBJECT Guatemala -- Politics and government -- 1985- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86004386
Guatemala -- Economic conditions -- 1985- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87003223
Subject Guatemala
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018046018
ISBN 9781501736070
1501736078
9781501736087
1501736086
9781501736063
150173606X