List of Tables, Figures, and Illustrations
Map: Location of Main Research Sites
Acronyms
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Dispossession, Violence, and Poverty
Positioning the Case Studies: CCDA and CONIC
Methodology: Activist Research Amid Violence
Overview of the Book
1. Strategic Engagements with Neoliberalism
Transitions to and through Neoliberalism
Peace, Land, and Neoliberalism
Challenging Guatemala’s Neoliberal Peace
2. The Guatemalan Campesino Movement: Organizing through War and Peace
From the Ashes of Genocide and Revolution, 1944-1985
The Perils of Peace, 1986-2010
The Guatemalan Campesino Movement Today
3. Between the Bullet and the Bank: Campesino Access to Land
The Market Model
Agrarian Conflict and Rural Struggle
4. CONIC: An Organization Apart
CONIC and Territorial Collectives
Victorias III: “We’re screwed but happy”
San José La Pasión: “We have to work together”
5. CCDA: A Revolutionary Enterprise
CCDA and Café Justicia
Salvador Xolhuitz: A Divided Community
Don Pancho: “We’re used to giving it our all”
6. Beyond the Post-Conflict Period
CONIC and CCDA: Within and Against the Market
The Neoliberal Temptation
CCDA and the Rearticulation of Resistance
Glossary
List of Interview Participants and Research Sites
Bibliography