Transnational Flows, Knowledge Production, and Markets over States: Continuity and Rupture in Social Struggles in Guatemala’s Western Highlands

• In Event: Mobilization in Latin America and the Caribbean

Brief Overview

This paper examines contemporary social mobilization in Guatemala. I find that transnational organizing and flows, knowledge production, and the simultaneous disavowal of the state as a site of struggle are key methods of social struggle today.

Author

• Eric Sippert, University of Massachusetts Amherst