'Mayan women' in Guatemala on the eve of 'peace'
Edición de la obra Naming security, constructing identity
| Autor | Maria Stern |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave |
| Fecha de publicación | 2005 |
| Lugar | Manchester, UK, New York, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 223 |
| ISBN-10 | 071907116X |
| OCLC | 60560211 |
| LCCN | 2006296271 |
| Serie | New approaches to conflict analysis |
| Número de Cutter |
S839n |
"Based on the voices of Mayan women, this book re-considers the connections between security, subjectivity and identity. Using the fascinating empirical material of life history interviews, Stern asks how Mayan women's security narratives - as discourses of resistance - both rearticulate and disrupt the main story of security embedded in the modern 'paradox of sovereignty'." "By engaging in a careful reading of how Mayan women 'speak' security in the spatio-temporal contexts that inform their lives (the family, the Ladino society, their organizations, the international political economy and the nation-state), Stern explores the multiplicity of both identity and security." "In addition to its theoretical contributions, Naming security - constructing identity offers an innovative methodology that bridges many different disciplines and substantively develops a method for reading security and identity as textual practices. This wide-reaching study will be essential reading for students of security, identity politics, feminist theory and Latin American studies."--Jacket.