Guatemalan vigilantism and the global (re)production of collective violence : a tale of two lynchings
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Weston Gavin Michael (1978-) ;
- ISBN : 978-0-367-19125-2, 978-0-367-78421-8
- Sujets : Lynchage -- Guatemala, Groupes d'autodéfense, Violence, Conditions sociales, Todos Santos Cuchumatán (Guatemala) -- Social conditions, Études de cas
- Comprend : A tale of two lynchings, A tale of 2 lynchings
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (150 pages), : Couverture illustrée en couleurs, 24 cm
- Pays de publication : Royaume-Uni, États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Routledge studies in anthropology, 53,
Notes
Bibliographie pages [128]-142. Index
Résumé
'This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalized phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala. The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip and rumour to understand national and global patterns of mob-based vigilantism and how diverse factors are funnelled into singular acts of violence. Gavin Weston critically engages with discussion of Guatemalan lynchings as a form of post-conflict violence alongside other less direct chains of causation. Lynchings have complex, tiered causations based in contestations regarding ideas and provision of justice. Underlying social problems and similarities in the way lynchings spread through talk and media make them relatively anticipatable in certain contexts and suggest possible spaces for mitigation against their viral spread. This volume will be relevant to Latin Americanists and those interested in the anthropology and sociology of violence, post-conflict violence and Peace Studies'.