Weston, Gavin. 2019. Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global(Re)Production of Collective Violence: A Tale of Two Lynchings. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367784218 [Book]

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Abstract or Description

This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala.

The chapters cover the issues of migration, tourism, gangs, intergenerational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to understand national and global patterns of mob- based vigilantism and how diverse factors are funnelled into singular acts of violence. Gavin Weston critically engages with the discussion of Guatemalan lynchings as a form of post- conflict violence alongside other less direct chains of causation. Lynchings have complex, tiered causations based in contestations regarding the ideas and provision of justice. Underlying social problems and similarities in the way lynchings spread through talk and media make them relatively anticipatable in certain contexts and suggest possible spaces for mitigation against their viral spread.

This volume will be relevant to Latin Americanists and those interested in the anthropology and sociology of violence, post- conflict violence, and Peace Studies.

Item Type:	Book
Keywords:	anthropology, Guatemala, vigilantism, violence, lynchings, gossip, media
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Anthropology
Date:	11 September 2019
Item ID:	26503
Date Deposited:	26 Jun 2019 09:51
Last Modified:	09 Mar 2021 16:21
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/26503

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