Naming Security - Constructing Identity: 'Mayan-Women' in Guatemala on the Eve of 'Peace'

Portada
Manchester University Press, 2005 - 223 páginas
Based on the experiences of Mayan women, Stern critically re-considers the connections between security, subjectivity and identity. By engaging in a careful reading of how Mayan women "speak" security in relation to the different contexts that inform their lives, she explores the multiplicity of both identity and security, and questions the main story of security imbedded in the modern "paradox of sovereignty."
 

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exploring insecurity
3
Theorizing security and identity
16
a framework for analysis
44
Reading insecurity in the familycommunity context
75
Constructing securityidentity in LadinoMayan relations
97
building a collective self
121
The political economy of Mayan women
145
Mayan women as citizens Guatemala a nationstate?
165
Closing comments
190
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Maria Stern is Lecturer in the Department of Peace and Development Studies at the University of Göteborg, Sweden.

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