War by Other Means

"An important collection, War by Other Means is the result of many years of multifaceted collaboration among the editors and authors. Rich in content and in method, the volume combines the views and idioms of scholars from Guatemala and the United States as they write history, testimony, ethnography, and political economy in the complex aftermath of death and survival in Central America." - Marisol de la Cadena, author of Indigenous Mestizos: The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919–1991

“Every few years, a new volume explores the many aftermaths of the violent insurgency and rabid counterinsurgency that plagued Guatemala in the 1970s and 1980s. This latest collection of essays is among the best yet, not least because of its extensive bibliography on the postwar period…Highly recommended.”  - P. R. Sullivan, Choice

"War by Other Means brilliantly links past and present through studies of biopolitics, everyday life, and lived hypermodernity in a land wracked by violence. Rich, nuanced, detailed, and full of multiple voices - many of them Guatemalan - it is indispensable to students and experts alike. It engages themes at the forefront of Guatemalan and Latin American studies and cannot be recommended highly enough." - J.T. Way, Hispanic American Historical Review

"This volume of insightful essays vitally extends the literature on Guatemala and on neoliberalism and globalization more generally . . . Readers from a wide array of backgrounds and experiences will find this volume incredibly helpful in understanding the sweeping effects of today's global forces . . ." - Shirley Heying, Journal of Anthropological Research

“What strikes me as perhaps the most important contribution is the authors’ capacity to weave together violent incidents prior to, during and after the civil war (since atrocities did not start with the civil war), as well as their courage in revealing the public secret that actors on both sides of the conflict also used the guise of war to settle long conflicts over land and property. Another important quality stems from the inclusion of the works of both Guatemalan and foreign scholars, the latter often having fieldwork experiences from the 1970s and 1980s to the present.” - Ninna Nyberg Sørensen, Bulletin of Latin American Research