A. D. Crosby and M. B. Lykes, "In Beyond Repair? Mayan Womens Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
In Beyond Repair? Mayan Women\u2019s Protagonism in the Aftermath of Genocidal Harm (Rutgers University Press, 2019), Alison D. Crosby and M. Brinton Lykes draw on eight years of feminist participatory action research conducted with fifty-four Q\u2019eqchi\u2019, Kaqchikel, Chuj, and Mam women to explore Mayan women\u2019s agency in their search for truth, justice, and reparation for harm suffered during the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Guatemalan state at the height of the thirty-six-year armed conflict. The book discusses the complexities of navigating, negotiating, and interpreting informal and formal justice processes, as participated in and experienced by protagonists, women\u2019s rights activists, lawyers, psychologists, Mayan rights activists, and researchers who have accompanied them as intermediaries.\nJeff Bachman is a senior lecturer in Human Rights at American University\u2019s School of International Service in Washington, DC. He is the author of the United States and Genocide: (Re)Defining the relationship and editor of the volume cultural Genocide: Law, Politics, and Global Manifestations. He is currently working on a new book, The Politics of Genocide: From the Genocide Convention to the Responsibility to Protect, contracted by Rutgers University Press for its Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights series.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies