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Batz, Giovanni. In Press. The Fourth Invasion: Decolonizing Histories, Megaprojects, and Ixil Maya Resistance in Guatemala. University of California Press. https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520401730/the-fourth-invasion
Batz, Giovanni. 2022. La Cuarta Invasión: Historias y Resistencia del Pueblo Ixil, y su Lucha contra la Hidroeléctrica Palo Viejo en Cotzal, Quiché, Guatemala. Guatemala: Asociación para el Avance de las Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala. https://avancso.org.gt/publicaciones/proximas-publicaciones/
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Batz, Giovanni. 2024. "The Four Dispossessions: Invasion, Historical Maya Displacements, and Extractivist Violence in Guatemala". LASA Forum, Vol. 55(1): 16-21. https://forum.lasaweb.org/files/vol55-issue1/dossier-3.pdf
Batz, Giovanni. 2024. "As Guatemalan Democracy Falters, Indigenous Communities Stand Their Ground". NACLA Report on the Americas. 56(3): 234-240. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2024.2388391
Heidbrink, Laruen, Giovanni Batz and David W. Barillas Chón. 2024. “Forced Family Separation: U.S. crimes against Indigenous Peoples”. Maya America. Vol. 6(1): Pgs. 1-25. https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mayaamerica/vol6/iss1/9/
Batz, Giovanni. 2023. “Covid 19, EE.UU. y Violencia Contra Migrantes de Guatemala”. In Incertidumbres y Horizontes: Ensayos sobre Covid-19. Edited by Ana María Cofiño and Alejandro Flores. Guatemala: Ediciones del Pensativo.
Batz, Giovanni. 2023. “Guatemala’s Democracy in Tatters”. NACLA Report on the Americas. 55(2): 110-113. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2023.2213048
Batz, Giovanni. 2022. “State Violence and Democratic Deficiencies 25 Years After Guatemala’s Peace Accords”. Democracy and Autocracy. Vol. 20(2): 30-35. https://connect.apsanet.org/s35/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2022/08/Demo...
Batz, Giovanni. 2021. “La Universidad Ixil y la Descolonización del Conocimiento”. Maya America. Vol. 3(2): Pgs. 112-126. https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mayaamerica/vol3/iss1/9/
Heidbrink, Laruen, Giovanni Batz and Celeste Sanchez. 2021. “Why would anyone leave?”: Development, Overindebtedness, and Migration in Guatemala”. Maya America. Vol. 3(3): Pgs. 5-25. https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mayaamerica/vol3/iss3/3/
Heidbrink, Laruen, Giovanni Batz and Celeste Sanchez. 2021. “¿Por qué alguien se iría?": Desarrollo, Sobreendeudamiento y Migración en Guatemala”. Maya America. Vol. 3(3): Pgs. 26-48. https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mayaamerica/vol3/iss3/3/
Batz, Giovanni. 2020. “Ixil Maya Resistance against Megaprojects in Cotzal, Guatemala”. Theory and Event. Vol. 23(4): Pgs. 1016-1036. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/767879
Batz, Giovanni. 2018. “The Ixil University and the Decolonization of Knowledge”. In Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education, edited by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Eve Tuck, and K. Wayne Yang. New York: Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429505010-7/ixil...
Batz, Giovanni. 2018. “La Lucha contra Megaproyectos en la Región Ixil y la Violaciones de los Derechos Indígenas”. Pensar Guatemala Desde la Resistencia: El Neoliberalismo Enfrentado, edited by Prensa Comunitaria. Guatemala: F&G Editores.
Batz, Giovanni. 2014. “Maya Cultural Resistance in Los Angeles: The Recovery of Identity and Culture among Maya Youth”. Latin American Perspectives. Vol. 41(3): Pgs. 194-207. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24573923
Batz, Giovanni. 2014. “Military Factionalism and the Consolidation of Power in 1960s Guatemala”. In Beyond the Shadow of the Eagle: New Histories of Latin America’s Cold War. Edited by Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Mark Lawrence, and Julio Moreno. University of New Mexico Press.
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Previous Courses Taught
CH ST 109: Indigenous Peoples and the Nation State in the Americas
CH ST 141: Central Americans in the United States
CH ST 189: Immigration and the U.S.-Mexico Border
CH ST 191GB: Maya History and Resistance
CH ST 191UI: UCSB-Universidad Ixil (Guatemala): Caminos Futuros
LAIS 101: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia