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Marcia Esparza
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice, Faculty Member
- Sociology, Criminology, Criminal Justice, Genocide, Latinos, Postcolonial Studies, and 23 moreIndigenous Peoples, Indigenous Studies, Social Movement, Environmentalism, Anthropology, Political Science, Political Economy, Globalization, Genocide Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Indigenous Peoples Rights, Politics of Memory, Memory Studies, History and Memory, Indigenous Politics, Human Rights, Guatemala, Holocaust Studies, Northern Africa, Decolonial Studies, Colonial Soldiers, Spanish Protectorated in Morocco, and Morocco. Cultureedit
Based on multi-country fieldwork with Indigenous communities, military records, and museums, this chapter offers an interdisciplinary analysisdecolonial criminology, critical military studies, war, and genocide-of the Guatemalan and... more
Based on multi-country fieldwork with Indigenous communities, military records, and museums, this chapter offers an interdisciplinary analysisdecolonial criminology, critical military studies, war, and genocide-of the Guatemalan and Spanish military to understand the racialized hierarchies of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. These hierarchies differentiate between the 'good Indians' and the 'bad Indians'. In both cases during war situations, right-wing, fascist armies have reabsorbed the colonized, as colonial soldiers, into their ranks because they are needed to carry out deadly military campaigns. Specifically, I focus on the persuasive role that military war propaganda plays in co-opting Indigenous troops' support to fight wars for the colonizer. What where they told by the military to get them to serve in counterinsurgency, they had little to gain from? Should critical Southernizing criminology turn its gaze to an examination of colonial and Cold War military crimes? Chapter 9 Moroccan and Guatemalan military servicemen
... Word count: 814. Text sample: Genocide in Chile? An Assessment Maureen S. Hiebert 1 andPablo Policzer 2 In Marcia Esparza ed. State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: the Dirty War Years Critical Series on Terrorism (London UK:... more
... Word count: 814. Text sample: Genocide in Chile? An Assessment Maureen S. Hiebert 1 andPablo Policzer 2 In Marcia Esparza ed. State Violence and Genocide in Latin America: the Dirty War Years Critical Series on Terrorism (London UK: Routledge) forthcoming 2009. ...
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Whereas scholars and activists have examined different aspects of causes and processes of the genocide against the Indigenous Maya community in Guatemala (1981–1983), its aftermath continues to be under-represented in the existing... more
Whereas scholars and activists have examined different aspects of causes and processes of the genocide against the Indigenous Maya community in Guatemala (1981–1983), its aftermath continues to be under-represented in the existing literature. This gap obscures the lingering effects and long-term repercussions of extreme forms of state violence and the reality of resistance by Maya communities. The chapter examines the role played by local archives in decolonizing dominant narratives, which silenced Indigenous Maya resistance against state violence in the wake of genocide in Guatemala in the early 1980s. In this sense, the recovery and preservation of local archives (maintained by Indigenous communities) can reveal alternative memories of resistance to state violence. The chapter considers what presentations of genocide in local archives suggest for the framing of current identities and understanding of indigeneity, and whether local archives might promote intra-community and nationa...
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Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America A Janus-Faced Paradigm?
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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice Volume 22 Number 2 May 2006 113-136 © 2006 Sage Publications 10.1177/1043986206286965 http://ccj.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub .com ... The Role Visual Research Methods Played in... more
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice Volume 22 Number 2 May 2006 113-136 © 2006 Sage Publications 10.1177/1043986206286965 http://ccj.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub .com ... The Role Visual Research Methods Played in Documenting the Lives of ...
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... La cita de Augusto Pino-chet señalada en el epígrafe a este escrito, resume cómo ... CASI LA VERDAD: SILENCIOS Y SECRETOS EN LA POSDICTADURA DE PINOCHET | MARCIA ESPARZA ... comercial” donde el testimonio es intercambiado por dine-ro,... more
... La cita de Augusto Pino-chet señalada en el epígrafe a este escrito, resume cómo ... CASI LA VERDAD: SILENCIOS Y SECRETOS EN LA POSDICTADURA DE PINOCHET | MARCIA ESPARZA ... comercial” donde el testimonio es intercambiado por dine-ro, o en un juicio criminal ...
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Este estudio demuestra como el ejercito de Guatemala explota la extrema pobreza de campesinos Indigenas, sobrevivientes del genocidio para perpetuar su control sobre areas rurales
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uestro trabajo, Casi la Verdad: Silencios y Secretos en la post-dictadura del General Augusto Pinochet en Chile, examina testimonios de militares y personal civil de inteligencia chilena procesados por crímenes cometidos durante la... more
uestro trabajo, Casi la Verdad: Silencios y Secretos en la post-dictadura del General Augusto Pinochet en Chile, examina testimonios de militares y personal civil de inteligencia chilena procesados por crímenes cometidos durante la dictadura
de Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990),
encontrados en testimonios judiciales.
El objetivo principal es cuestionar el papel
social que juega ese silencio mermado tanto
por la cultura militar como por omisión testimonial en la Comisión de la Verdad. En estos testimonios se detectan, patrones de lealtad
a las Fuerzas Armadas y no el reconocimiento
de responsabilidades de los delitos.
de Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990),
encontrados en testimonios judiciales.
El objetivo principal es cuestionar el papel
social que juega ese silencio mermado tanto
por la cultura militar como por omisión testimonial en la Comisión de la Verdad. En estos testimonios se detectan, patrones de lealtad
a las Fuerzas Armadas y no el reconocimiento
de responsabilidades de los delitos.
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... The Report also identified an estimated 83.33 percent of all victims as Mayan and concluded that the Department of El Quiché was ... For example, the army inculcated patriarchal values by teaching PAC members the Hymn to the Macho... more
... The Report also identified an estimated 83.33 percent of all victims as Mayan and concluded that the Department of El Quiché was ... For example, the army inculcated patriarchal values by teaching PAC members the Hymn to the Macho Patrol, Himno al Macho Patrullero (REMHI ...
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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice Volume 22 Number 2 May 2006 113-136 © 2006 Sage Publications 10.1177/1043986206286965 http://ccj.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub .com ... The Role Visual Research Methods Played in... more
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice Volume 22 Number 2 May 2006 113-136 © 2006 Sage Publications 10.1177/1043986206286965 http://ccj.sagepub.com hosted at http://online.sagepub .com ... The Role Visual Research Methods Played in Documenting the Lives of ...
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Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America A Janus-Faced Paradigm?