Name: Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala: 120 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 120)
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Author: Gibbings, Julie
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Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala: 120 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 120)

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Physical Book

Author

Julie Gibbings

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

428

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.63 kg.

ISBN13

9781108733489

Synopsis "Our Time is Now: Race and Modernity in Postcolonial Guatemala: 120 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 120) "

Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their 'present' is our 'past' - and reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an orderly, natural process of evolution towards modernity. Our Time is Now reveals that modernity particularly appealed to those excluded from power, precisely because of its aspirational and future orientation. In the process, marginalized peoples creatively imagined diverse political futures that redefined the racialized and temporal terms of modernity. Employing a critical reading of a wide variety of previously untapped sources, Julie Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of time and history as well as practices of modern politics, economics, and social norms were central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolution.

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