Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global (Re)Production of Collective Violence: A Tale of Two Lynchings

This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala.

The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to understand national and global patterns of mob-based vigilantism and how diverse factors are funnelled into singular acts of violence. Gavin Weston critically engages with the discussion of Guatemalan lynchings as a form of post-conflict violen...