Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper explores the intersections and overlaps of Maya Chuj education, sovereignty struggles, and youth organising spaces to show the ways coloniality reverberates through schooling, militarisation, development, forced displacement, and corporate extraction to impact Indigenous youth’s lives and futures. It draws on findings from 18 months of transnational ethnographic fieldwork in Guatemala and the United States and centres the insights and experiences of Chuj youth and educators, highlighting the ways they were impacted by, navigated, and refused intersecting modern/colonial processes. This study demonstrates how education policies and schooling are intertwined with processes of corporate extraction and military invasions of Indigenous nations and rooted in a developmentalist vision of modernity based in colonial (il)logics of Indigenous elimination and the theft of Indigenous lands. Finally, this paper centres the power and possibility of Chuj decolonial resistances.
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