Guatemalan Historical Context

It would be difficult to appreciate the events at Chixoy and Río Negro without a general understanding of Guatemalan history, with particular attention to the five centuries of conflict between Spanish colonizers and the Indigenous Maya peoples. This chapter provides historical context relevant to t...

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Published inDams, Displacement and Development pp. 29 - 39
Main Author Einbinder, Nathan
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Springer International Publishing
SeriesSpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
Subjects
Colonialism
Development
Guatemala history
Human geography
Mayan peoples
Neoliberalism
Physical geography
Social & cultural anthropology
Violence
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Summary:It would be difficult to appreciate the events at Chixoy and Río Negro without a general understanding of Guatemalan history, with particular attention to the five centuries of conflict between Spanish colonizers and the Indigenous Maya peoples. This chapter provides historical context relevant to this study, while remaining within the general themes of development and Indigenous repression. Historical and contemporary topics relevant to Guatemala will narrow in scope in the following chapter, where I provide an overview of the events at Río Negro and the Chixoy Dam.
ISBN:3319515101
9783319515106
ISSN:2366-763X
2366-7648
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-51511-3_4