{"product_id":"textures-of-terror-the-murder-of-claudina-isabel-velasquez-and-her-fathers-quest-for-justice-volume-55-hardcover","title":"Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father's Quest for Justice Volume 55 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictoria Sanford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part memoir and part forensic investigation, \u003ci\u003eTextures of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping first-person story of women, violence, and migration out of Guatemala--and how the United States is implicated. Accompanying Jorge Velásquez in a years-long search for answers after the brutal murder of his daughter Claudina Isabel, Victoria Sanford explores what it means to seek justice in \"postconflict\" countries where violence never ended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through this father's determined struggle and other stories of justice denied, \u003ci\u003eTextures of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e offers a deeper understanding of US policies in Latin America and their ripple effect on migration. Sanford offers an up-close appraisal of the inner workings of the Guatemalan criminal justice system and how it maintains inequality, patriarchy, and impunity. Presenting the stories of other women who have suffered at the hands of strangers, intimate partners, and the security forces, this work reveals the deeply gendered nature of power and violence in Guatemala.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTextures of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e, Victoria Sanford brilliantly unravels complex and widespread gender-based violence in Guatemala and how the very institutions created to combat it perpetuate violence and impunity. Above all, she tells the love story of a father's ceaseless quest for justice for the murder of his beloved daughter.--Kerry Kennedy, President of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"How can anyone convey Guatemala's descent into ultra-violence following a US-backed coup decades ago? Sanford does it beautifully by telling a single poignant story and placing it against the country's dazzling political and cultural background. Harrowing but deeply insightful, \u003ci\u003eTextures of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e shows how ordinary people react and resist as a society decomposes.\"--Stephen Kinzer, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and world affairs columnist for the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This book is simultaneously one book and many. One chronicles the murder of a young female law student. The others explore the layers of systemic horror that remind us that to be a woman in twenty-first-century Guatemala is to live in danger, in the shadow of violence, impunity, and historical oppression.\"--Carolina Escobar Sarti, National Director, La Alianza Guatemala \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eextures of Terror\u003c\/i\u003e, Sanford illuminates the way violence and impunity continue to destroy lives, especially women's lives, in postwar Guatemala. She focuses on the 2005 feminicide of Claudina Isabel and her father's efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice, weaving a story rooted in Guatemalan history, but with universal resonance.\"--Jo-Marie Burt, Associate Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Sanford\u003c\/b\u003e is a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York. She has given expert testimony on the Guatemalan genocide in international courts and authored seven books, including \u003ci\u003eBuried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 230\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 09, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51762697109792,"sku":"9780520393455","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b6f9eb33de5bb059618b0d8bd946f8a9.webp?v=1780223683","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/textures-of-terror-the-murder-of-claudina-isabel-velasquez-and-her-fathers-quest-for-justice-volume-55-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}