Mayan imaginaries of democracy: Interactive sovereignties and political affect in postrevolutionary Guatemala

摘要: Mayan farmers in rural northwest Guatemala perceive the U.S. Department of Agriculture fruit-fly eradication program, MOSCAMED, as a government and agribusiness scheme designed to addict them agrochemicals by despoiling subsistence agriculture. This bitterly accusative view depicts state, capital, interlinked sovereigns willing kill harm hapless Mayas. Considering political processes town San Pedro Necta light local mistrust engagement with I argue that neoliberal democracy extends an affective imaginary defeat produced decades counterinsurgency warfare through targeted violence exchanging meager resources for complicity racial dispossession. My research findings illuminate how Mayas live navigate thicket sovereignties, including ones widely viewed predicated on their collective misery. They also reframe participation authoritarian politics since 1996 peace accords.