The Coup And The Palm Trees: Agrarian Conflict And Political Power In Honduras (Geographies Of Justice And Social Transformation Ser.)

The Coup under the Palm Trees interrogates the Honduran present, through an exploration of the country's spatiotemporal trajectory of agrarian change since the mid-20th Century. It tells the double history of how the Aguán region went from a set of empty" lands to the centerpiece of the country's agrarian reform in the 1980s and a central site for the palm oil industry and drug trade; while militarized process of state formation between the military coups of 1963 and 2009 took place. Rather than a case of "failed democratic transition", the book shows how the current Honduran crisis, exemplified by massive outmigration towards the US, blatant narco-state links and the 2009 coup, is better understood within longer historical processes in which violence, exclusion and dispossession became the central organizational principles of the state"--

• | Author: Andrés León Araya
• | Publisher: University Of Georgia Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0820365378
• | ISBN-13: 9780820365374