| Titre | Contre-insurrection et urbanisation dans la guerre civile guatémaltèque | |
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| Auteur | Finn Stepputat, Amandine Colombe | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 79, avril-juin 2018 Les villages stratégiques : politiques contre-insurrectionnelles et regroupements de populations | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thema. Les villages stratégiques : politiques contre-insurrectionnelles et regroupements de populations |
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| Page | 109-132 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Counterinsurgency and Urbanization in the Guatemalan Civil War This article considers the manner in which the Guatemalan army used the transfer and concentration of rural populations in camps and nucleated settlements to reassert control over the national territory in the context of the armed insurgency of the early 1980s. Guatemalan military officers were deeply influenced by the experience of various counterinsurgency campaigns carried out in Algeria and Vietnam. In particular, managing the population via various “civic action” programs played a decisive role in the civil war. Drawing upon the theoretical work of Foucault, Lefebvre and de Certeau regarding the spatial organization of the state, this paper identifies three forms of forced urbanization: the concentration of displaced populations in camp-like sites in 1982; the introduction of “model villages” and “poles of development” in 1983-84; and the stabilization of rural “communities” in the 1990s, the result of postwar reconstruction efforts in former conflict zones. These three urbanization efforts combined spatial forms of organization with processes of subjectification that were permeated with ideas and techniques seeking to forge civilized subjects and a reformed political community. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=CRII_079_0109 |
