Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global (Re)Production of Collective Violence: A Tale of Two Lynchings

ISBN-13: 9780367784218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 150 str.

Gavin Weston

Opis

This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalized phenomenon through examination of two cases in Guatemala. The chapters cover migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip and rumour to understand patterns of mob-based vigilantism and how diverse factors are funnelled into acts of violence.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 – Introduction: Two lynchings – a microcosm

Chapter 2 – Todos Santos

Chapter 3 – A Post-war Phenomenon?

Chapter 4 – Vigilantism, Dissonance, and the Guatemalan State

Chapter 5 – Scapegoats, Gossip, and Rumour

Chapter 6 – Dissemination: Vigilantism, and the Media

Chapter 7 – The Blurred Boundaries of Violence

Chapter 8 – Concluding thoughts/lingering problems

O autorze

Gavin Weston is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.