Postcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their 'present' is our 'past' - and reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an orderly, natural process of evolution towards modernity. Our Time is Now reveals that modernity particularly appealed to those excluded from power, precisely because of its aspirational and future orientation. In the process, marginalized peoples creatively imagined diverse political futures that redefined the racialized and temporal terms of modernity. Employing a critical reading of a wide variety of previously untapped sources, Julie Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas of time and history as well as practices of modern politics, economics, and social norms were central to the rise of coffee capitalism in Guatemala and to twentieth century populist dictatorship and revolution.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	428
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Cambridge University Press
Fecha de Publicación	2022-04-14
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.0" x 0.95" pulgadas
Serie	Cambridge Latin American Studies
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	América Latina

Gibbings, Julie

Julie Gibbings is a Lecturer in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.