When Historical Legacies meet Transnationalism – Security Governance and Violence in Post-War Guatemala

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Current debates on violence in Guatemala focus mainly on drug trafficking, youth gangs or violent conflicts regarding local resistance towards mining projects. Insufficient attention has so far been paid to the complex entanglements and “cross-fertilization” between historical legacies and transnational forces in (re)producing and perpetuating violence in Guatemala. This panel seeks to address this void. It brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds that critically interrogate the mutually reinforcing intersection between history and transnational factors in the making of violence in Guatemala.

Sub Track

• Defense, Violence, and (In)security

Session Organizers

• Marianne Braig, Lateinamerika Institut der FU Berlin

• Markus Hochmüller, Freie Universität Berlin

Chair

• Marianne Braig, Lateinamerika Institut der FU Berlin

Individual Presentations

• Transnational Circulations of Security, Violence and the Limits of the State in Guatemala - Jennifer L Burrell, State University of New York/Albany

• Building a Democratic Police after War – The Role of Guatemala’s Transnationalized Security Elites - Markus Hochmüller, Freie Universität Berlin; Bernardo L Jurema, Freie Universität Berlin

• (Trans)formación del Estado y violencia en la Guatemala de pos-guerra - Matilde L González, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales