Jennifer L. Burrell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University at Albany SUNY.

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures, Maps and TablesMap of Central AmericaIntroduction: Ethnographic Visions of Millennial Central AmericaJennifer L. Burrell and Ellen MoodiePart I: Imagining Democracy After the Cold WarChapter 1. Contradiction and Struggle Under the Leftist Phoenix: Rural Nicaragua at the Thirtieth Anniversary of the RevolutionRosario MontoyaChapter 2. The Violence of Cold War Polarities and the Fostering of Hope: The 2009 Elections in Postwar El SalvadorAinhoa MontoyaChapter 3. Daring to Hope in the Midst of Despair: The Agrarian Question within the Anti-Coup Resistance Movement in HondurasJefferson C. Boyer and Wilfredo Cardona PeñalvaChapter 4. “My Heart Says NO”: Political Experiences of the Struggle Against CAFTA-DR in Costa RicaCiska RaventósChapter 5. Democracy, Disenchantment and the Future in El SalvadorEllen MoodiePart II: Indigeneity, Race and Human Rights in the (Post) Multicultural MomentChapter 6. Cuando Nos Internacionalizamos: Human Rights and Other Universals at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous IssuesBaron PinedaChapter 7. Acknowledging Racism and State Transformation in Postwar Guatemalan SocietyClaudia Dary FuentesChapter 8. Ephemeral Rights and Securitized Lives: Migration, Mareros and Power in Millennial GuatemalaJennifer L. BurrellPart III: Dominant, Residual and Emergent Economic Strategies Chapter 9. Honduras’s Smallholder Coffee Farmers, the Coffee Crisis, and Neoliberal Policy: Disjunctures in Knowledge and Conundrums for DevelopmentCatherine TuckerChapter 10. Maya Handicraft Vendors’ CAFTA-DR Discourses:  “Free Trade Is Not For Everyone in Guatemala”Walter E. LittleChapter 11. “Here The Campesino is Dead”: Can Central America’s Smallholders Be Saved?Sarah LyonChapter 12. Certifying Sustainable Tourism in Costa Rica: Environmental Governance and Accountability in a Transitional Era Luis VivancoChapter 13. Central America Comes to the “Cradle of Democracy”: Immigration and Neoliberalization in Williamsburg, VirginiaJennifer Bickham MendezPart IV: A Place on the Map: Surviving on Pasts, Presents and FuturesChapter 14. Migration, Tourism and Post-Insurgent Individuality in Northern Morazán, El SalvadorLeigh BinfordChapter 15. Intimate Encounters: Sex and Power in Nicaraguan TourismFlorence E. BabbChapter 16. Notes on Tourism, Ethnicity and the Politics of Cultural Value in HondurasMark AndersonNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

“The editors mostly avoid the problem of dissonance often faced by multi-authored texts, with a clear and concise framing narrative. While the individual chapters are quite distinctive, they always feel interconnected. Taken together, these ethnographies offer a powerful story of the intersection of multiple forces and highlight the struggles and incredible resilience of the region’s people.” • Bulletin of Latin American Research“As recent events in Honduras and the increasing incursion of drug wars on American life attest, the relationship between the United States and Central America is far from over. This book fills a much needed gap in the literature by addressing the complex presents and futures of Central America, its blurred relationship with the US and the complex intra-regional difference. It is an ambitious text in its privileging of the ethnographic gaze so as to provide a regional vision.” • M. Gabriela Torres, Wheaton College“[A] very rich and timely collection on contemporary Central America [that] situates local worlds of Central American citizens within the broader framework of key global challenges such as neoliberalism, globalization and democratization. In doing so it makes a critical contribution to contemporary studies of political transition more generally and those of Latin America more specifically. It unites a fascinating range of chapters in this timely and thoughtful collection.” • Mo Hume, University of Glasgow