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" A War of Proper Names: "
Mazariegos, Juan Carlos
Morris, Rosalind C.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1113547
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TLpq2315587848
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Mazariegos, Juan Carlos
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Morris, Rosalind C.
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A War of Proper Names:\ Mazariegos, Juan CarlosMorris, Rosalind C.
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Columbia University
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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352
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| Abstract
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During the Guatemalan civil war (1962-1996), different forms of anonymity enabled members of the organizations of the social movement, revolutionary militants, and guerrilla combatants to address the popular classes and rural majorities, against the backdrop of generalized militarization and state repression. Pseudonyms and anonymous collective action, likewise, acquired political centrality for revolutionary politics against a state that sustained and was symbolically co-constituted by forms of proper naming that signify class and racial position, patriarchy, and ethnic difference. Between 1979 and 1981, at the highest peak of mass mobilizations and insurgent military actions, the symbolic constitution of the Guatemalan state was radically challenged and contested. From the perspective of the state’s elites and military high command, that situation was perceived as one of crisis; and between 1981 and 1983, it led to a relatively brief period of massacres against indigenous communities of the central and western highlands, where the guerrillas had been operating since 1973. Despite its long duration, by 1983 the fate of the civil war was sealed with massive violence.
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Civil war
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Genocidal violence
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Indigenous politics
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Naming
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Revolution
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State formation
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