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Abstract
For many indigenous communities in the western highlands of Guatemala, transnational migration is considered critical to community survival. This paper analyzes how extreme migration enables new strategies of social formation and community governance for those who remain. My work builds on the scholarship of “afterlives” that calls for an examination of how historical trajectories embed themselves in contemporary social, cultural, and institutional configurations. Migration can productively be considered in terms of its afterlives. Through this frame, I illustrate how indigenous community members navigate conflicting ideologies of work, progress, and development as they collaborate with non-governmental organizations to support migration prevention initiatives. I argue that community members strategically draw on the Mayan cosmovision to contest western knowledge paradigms of development while simultaneously attending to the demands of external institutional legibility, and in so doing create novel formations of collective governance.
Résumé
Pour de nombreuses communautés autochtones des hautes terres occidentales du Guatemala, les migrations transnationales sont considérées comme étant essentielles à la survie de la communauté. Cet article analyse comment les migrations extrêmes permettent le développement de nouvelles stratégies de formation sociale et de gouvernance communautaire pour ceux qui restent. Mon travail s’appuie sur les recherches portant sur les « nouvelles vies », qui impliquent une analyse de la manière dont les trajectoires historiques s’intègrent dans les configurations sociales, culturelles et institutionnelles contemporaines. La migration peut ainsi être approchée de manière productive, selon les termes de ses continuités. À travers ce cadre, j’illustre comment les membres des communautés autochtones naviguent dans des idéologies conflictuelles de travail, de progrès et de développement, lorsqu’ils collaborent avec des organisations non gouvernementales pour soutenir des initiatives de prévention de la migration. Je montre que les membres de ces communautés s’inspirent stratégiquement de la cosmovision maya pour contester les paradigmes occidentaux du développement, tout en répondant simultanément aux exigences de lisibilité institutionnelle externe, et, ce faisant, créent ainsi de nouvelles configurations de gouvernance collective.
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