This City Belongs to You

A History of Student Activism in Guatemala, 1944-1996
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-520-29222-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 154 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Between 1944 and 1996, Guatemala experienced a revolution, counterrevolution, and civil war. Playing a pivotal role within these national shifts were students from Guatemala’s only public university, the University of San Carlos (USAC). USAC students served in, advised, protested, and were later persecuted by the government, all while crafting a powerful student nationalism. In no other moment in Guatemalan history has the relationship between the university and the state been so mutable, yet so mutually formative. By showing how the very notion of the middle class in Guatemala emerged from these student movements, this book places an often-marginalized region and period at the center of histories of class, protest, and youth movements and provides an entirely new way to think about the role of universities and student bodies in the formation of liberal democracy throughout Latin America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vrana, Heather A.

Vrana, Heather

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: “Do Not Mess with Us!”
1 • The Republic of Students, 1942–1952
2 • Showcase for Democracy, 1953–1957
3 • A Manner of Feeling, 1958–1962
4 • Go Forth and Teach All, 1963–1977
5 • Combatants for the Common Cause, 1976–1978
6 • Student Nationalism without a Government, 1977–1980
Coda: “Ahí van los estudiantes!” 1980–Present

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Vrana is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida and the editor of Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements 1929–1983.