In the 1980s, Guatemala's state-sponsored violence reached genocidal proportions and led to community ruptures, endemic fear, deepened distrust, and unprecedented levels of daily violence that have continued into the post-war period. Tragically, the war's resolution has not ended the country's volatility and insecurity. Reconciliation is challenging and requires a much deeper structural overhaul. It is problematical for a society that has been created on a rigid, ethnic-based, and highly divisive foundation now to take steps toward reclaiming a non-existent pre-war period of concord. An inclusive and just society, which respects the fundamental human rights of all, is essential yet sorely lacking. Moving in this direction is hindered by the historic impunity enjoyed by the military and the powerful, as well as a dysfunctional judicial system in need of reform.
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The Continuum of Violence in Post-war Guatemala
Beatriz Manz
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2008
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- 151–164 (14 total)
Introduction
Ethnographic Engagement with Bureaucratic Violence
Erin R. Eldridge and Amanda J. Reinke
multilateral and dynamic bureaucratic infrastructures that exact this continuum of violence on populations in a variety of geographic contexts while also closely examining bureaucrats and the individuals affected by their daily decision-making. Recognizing
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 94–98 (5 total)
Perspectives from the Ground
Colonial Bureaucratic Violence, Identity, and Transitional Justice in Canada
Jaymelee J. Kim
as colonial bureaucratic violence within Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Philippe Bourgois’s continuum of violence ( Scheper-Hughes 2002 ; Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois 2004a , 2004b ). Within this framework, violence ranges from everyday violence to acts of
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 116–134 (19 total)
Anthropology and Law in Latin America
Towards Transformative Collaborations?
Rachel Sieder
As a researcher working within the field of collaborative or ‘engaged’ legal and political anthropology in Latin America, law does very much shape my research agenda and that of most of my colleagues. I would also contend that anthropology does impact law throughout the region, although to a much lesser extent. This is most evident in the legalisation, judicialisation and juridification of indigenous peoples’ collective rights to autonomy and territory in recent decades. Yet, the influence of anthropology on legal adjudication in the region is not only limited to issues pertaining to indigenous peoples: engaged applied ethnographic research is playing an increasingly important role in revealing to legal practitioners and courts the effects of human rights violations in specific contexts, and victims’ perceptions of the continuums of violence to which they are subjected.
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- Other
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- 79–85 (6 total)
The Bureaucratic Violence of Alternative Justice
Amanda J. Reinke
. Restorative Justice and the Continuum of Violence For many practitioners, RJ in the United States thus exists as a practical and tangible critique and protest of the violence embedded within the legal system. The multifaceted, interdependent, and long
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jan 2018
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- Research Article
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- 135–150 (16 total)
Placing Wellbeing
Anthropological Perspectives on Wellbeing and Place
Emilia Ferraro and Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti
relies on the extraction of natural resources. This context has been experienced as a continuum of violence that is destructive to the socio-natural relations with other-than-human beings through which Ashaninka people pursue kametsa asaiki . Sarmiento
“Paradas” and “Arrechas”
Disrupted Femininities and Gender Arrangements within Bucaramanga's Gangs (Colombia)
Karen Nathalia Cerón Steevens, Mariana Camacho-Muñoz, and Cristian Linares Gómez
continuum of violence, to various types of violence of different intensities that manifest themselves in various spheres ( Bejarano 2014 ). In this sense, they are vulnerable to several kinds of violence, which to some extent are normalized or justified
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2023
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- Research Article
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- 55–71 (17 total)
Applied Anthropology in Juridical Grey Spaces
Amanda J. Reinke
needs ( Reinke 2016 ). Informal justice practitioners work against entrenched continuums of violence within the legal system to champion justice for their clients. Formal law and its practitioners simultaneously leverage informal justice practices and
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 1–8 (8 total)
“Coaching” Queer
Hospitality and the Categorical Imperative of LGBTQ Asylum Seeking in Lebanon and Turkey
Aydan Greatrick
in interview waiting rooms and outside official buildings ( Kivilcim 2017 ). Similarly, in Lebanon, queer refugees are exposed to what Henri Myrttinen and colleagues define as a “continuum of violence” (2017: 66). Faced with a high degree of
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 98–106 (9 total)
“What about Last Time?”
Exploring Potentiality in Danish Young Women's Violent Conflicts
Ann-Karina Henriksen
violence as a “continuum of violence” ( Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois 2004: 1 ), not reduced to physical violence or singular events, but viewed, rather, as social processes imbued with meaning and life-altering potential. From a sociological perspective
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 160–174 (15 total)