Our Time Is Now: Race And Modernity Postcolonial Guatemala

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It is hard to write a modern Guatemalan history that is a not just a grim march to the genocide of the 1980s, but this exciting, meticulous book does it spellbindingly. Refusing to universalize colonizing linear time, Gibbings pries open the archive to engage the pluriverse of transforming Mayan experience with salutary attention to gender. While rooted lovingly in place, this is a profound analysis of plantationocene worlding that will resonate for anyone concerned with today’s global crisis of racialized climate collapse.' Diane Nelson, author of Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life After Genocide

'Through nuanced analysis of archival materials and oral histories, Gibbings reveals indigenous peoples’ perspectives, strategies, and responses to local and national politics. In so doing, she captures the complexity of class, gender, ethnic, and power relationships amongst Q’eqchi Mayas and between them and Hispanic authorities.' David Carey, author of I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944

'Gibbings deftly renders the radical imaginaries of indigenous Guatemalans, for whom the legacies of empire, liberalism, forced labor, and political violence weighed like a nightmare. This theoretically sophisticated and archivally-grounded book not only recasts the history of post-colonial Guatemala but also, like the very Q’eqchi Maya alternative modernities at the heart of its story, unsettles the normative temporalities and teleologies of Western racial capitalism.' Kirsten Weld, author of Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala

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