This chapter focuses on the issue of legal pluralism and the recognition of indigenous customary law within the Guatemalan peace process. It understands law as a site of engagement where different imaginaries and political projects of citizenship and the state are contested from above and below. The chapter situates contemporary debates about citizenship in Guatemala in historical context and analyzes the socio-legal transformations which have occurred since the signing of the 1995 Agreement on the Rights and Identity of Indigenous Peoples.
(2001) “Revisioning citizenship: Reforming the Law in Post-Conflict Guatemala,” in Thomas Blum Hansen y Finn Stepputat (eds.), States of Imagination: Explorations of the Post-Colonial State, Duke University Press: 203-220. ISBN: 0-8223-2801-1