El declive del capital social

Following the 1996 treaty ending decades of civil war, how are Guatemalans reckoning with genocide, especially since almost everyone contributed in some way to the violence? Meaning “to count, figure up” and “to settle rewards and punishments,” reckoning promises accounting and accountability. Yet as Diane M. Nelson shows, the means by which the war was waged, especially as they related to race and gender, unsettled the very premises of knowing and being. Symptomatic are the stories of duplicity pervasive in postwar Guatemala, as the left, the Mayan people, and the state were each...

"El movimiento feminista de los años setenta luchó para las generaciones venideras. Y crecimos para convertirnos en mujeres profesionales sin vetos a ningún propósito ni sueño. Sin desigualdad, cualquier meta era posible. Y dejamos de ser feministas. Ya no estaba bien visto reivindicar la igualdad, y el feminismo se convirtió en una palabra fea. Pero seamos sinceras: nos han engañado. Sin embargo, hay mujeres ejemplos de rebeldía, tesón e inteligencia que han triunfado en un mundo vetado para el liderazgo femenino. Mujeres intrépidas que vociferan al mundo desde el silencio del...

El abordaje de un tema casi virgen en nuestra historiografía, a través de un relato accesible al público no especializado.

This excellent history of Peru proposes and proves an entirely new thesis on its nineteenth century: the changes in its economy that might have led to a better future were undone by taxes and other demands at the national, provincial and local levels. The failure of Peru owes a good deal to wartime taxes and local tax farming of the countryside. Professor Christine Hunefeldt does for the mundane issue of taxation what she has already done for Peruvian slavery and women’s rights; she writes a new history based on the evolution of a tax structure that changed for the worse over time. This is...