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As guest editors of CROLAR, we are pleased to present to you the issue “Politics, Societies, and Cultures in Contemporary Central America.” While CROLAR's first issues have focused on thematic fields such as inequalities or resistance and social movements, the current issue takes an interdisciplinary look at a region. Compared to its immediate neighbors Mexico and Colombia, Central America is composed of countries that might be small in territorial terms; nevertheless, the region is highly complex and fragmented, as well as a multicultural, dynamic and simultaneously connected area in today’s globalized world.
The societies and states of the Central American sub-continent are historically, politically, and culturally intertwined. To capture the contemporary socio-political realities and the local, national, and transnational imaginaries and identities, we have to consider the interdependencies that have shaped the region since colonial times. Therefore, adopting a diachronic perspective is fundamental to engaging in any critical reflection about Central America as a diverse unit. This is especially so considering its colonial past and subsequent developments that kept transforming the political scenarios of the region. Consider, for example, the early experience of a failed union, anti-imperialist and revolutionary movements, civil wars, the developments of democratization and their links to neoliberalism, as well as the continent’s transnational communities resulting of diverse exiles, migrations, displacements, and diasporas.....read more..
Markus Hochmüller, Alexandra Ortiz Wallner & The CROLAR Editorial Team
Vol 3, No 1 (2014): Politics, Societies and Cultures in Contemporary Central America
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Focus
| Luis Roniger (2011): Transnational Politics in Central America |
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| John P. Hawkins, James H. McDonald and Walter Randolph Adams (eds.) (2013): Crisis of Governance in Maya Guatemala: Indigenous Responses to a Failing State |
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Daniel Núñez |
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| Otto Argueta (2013): Private Security in Guatemala. Pathway to its Proliferation |
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Sandra Wienand |
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| Manuel A. Solís Avendaño (2012): Memoria descartada y sufrimiento invisibilizado: La violencia política de los años 40 vista desde el Hospital Psiquiátrico |
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Luis Ernesto Aguilar Carvajal |
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| Laura Matthew (2012): Memories of Conquest. Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala |
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Lasse Hölck |
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| Hans-Christian Petersen (Eds.) (2013): Spaces of the Poor. Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants |
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Frank Müller |
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| Deborah T. Levenson (2013): Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death |
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Markus Hochmüller |
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| Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera (2013): Territories of Violence: State, Marginal Youth, and Public Security in Honduras |
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Sonja Wolf |
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| Peter Peetz (2011): Maras, Medien, Militär. Gesellschaftlicher Diskurs und staatliche Politik gegenüber Jugendbanden in Honduras |
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Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera |
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| Fabrice Lehoucq (2012): The Politics of Modern Central America. Civil War, Democratization, and Underdevelopment. |
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Markus Müller |
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| Aaron Schneider (2012): State-Building and Tax Regimes in Central America |
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Rodrigo Rodrigues-Silveira |
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| Gabriela Inchauste and Ernesto Stein (eds) (2013): Financing the Family: Remittances to Central America in a Time of Crisis |
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Christian Ambrosius |
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Classics Revisited
| The Significance of Edelberto Torres Rivas in Central America – A Review of His Academic Life and Work |
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Dirk Kruijt |
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| Edelberto Torres-Rivas (2011): Revoluciones sin cambios revolucionarios. Ensayos sobre la crisis en Centroamérica |
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José Luis Rocha |
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| Edelberto Torres-Rivas y los estudios centroamericanos |
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Alexandra Ortiz Wallner |
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Interventions
| Sala Negra de El Faro (eds.) (2013): Crónicas negras. Desde una región que no cuenta |
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Sabine Erbrich |
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| Diego Enrique Osorno (2012): La Guerra de Los Zetas: Viaje por la Frontera de la Necropolítica |
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Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera |
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Current Debates
| Luis Jorge Garay Salamanca and Eduardo Salcedo-Albarán (Eds.) (2012): Nacotráfico, corrupción y Estados. Cómo las redes ilícitas han reconfigurado las instituciones en Colombia, Guatemala y México |
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Birte Keller |
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Complete Edition
| Crolar Vol. 3, No.1: Políticas, sociedades y culturas en Centroamérica |
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