{"product_id":"dealing-with-peace-1","title":"Dealing with Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDealing with Peace \u003c\/em\u003epresents the struggles of the Guatemalan campesino (peasant) social movement during the country’s post-conflict transition from 1996 to the present, focusing on efforts to obtain land and improve livelihoods within a shifting, yet consistently hostile, political-economic environment. With special focus on the relationship between the movement and the neoliberal state, Simon Granovsky-Larsen asks whether the acceptance of neoliberal resources – in this case, support for land access in Guatemala provided by the World Bank-funded \u003ci\u003eFondo de Tierras\u003c\/i\u003e – reduces the potential for social movements to continue to work for transformative change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePositioned in contrast to studies warning that social movements cannot maintain their original vision after accepting such support, this book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eargues that organizations within the Guatemalan campesino movement have engaged strategically with neoliberalism, utilizing available resources to advance visions of social change. Using a wealth of primary data collected over more than a year of fieldwork, it contributes significantly to the study of Guatemalan politics and advances understandings of the grounded operation of neoliberalism. Exploring both the dynamics of a national neoliberal transition and the ways in which these play out within civil society, \u003ci\u003eDealing with Peace\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the long-term and often contradictory negotiation of political and economic transitions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"By Simon Granovsky-Larsen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575139106998,"sku":"9781487513177","price":49.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781487513177.jpg?v=1730228693","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/dealing-with-peace-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}