🇬🇹Journeys Of Development in Guatemala. George Lovell discusses his book: A Beauty that Hurts. 🇬🇹

Eduardo Galeano said that Dr. W. George Lovell "did not choose Guatemala for his career, but the land, in a magic way, chose him to tell us about the shining voices that whisper in the darkness."  In this episode, recorded in Antigua de Guatemala, Dr. Bob Huish chats with George Lovell about the 4th edition of his book "A Beauty that Hurts", which tells the story of how processes of 16th century colonialism in Guatemala continue to shape the land and life of the country today.  The book's 4th edition continues to provide readers with rich insight into the painful journey of colonialism in the Americas, and how it manifested into outright genocide in Guatemala. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, W. GEORGE LOVELL (PhD, Alberta, 1980) is professor of geography at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and visiting professor in Latin American history at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain. Central America, Guatemala in particular, has been the regional focus of much his research, though he has traveled to, and written about, most parts of Latin America. In 1995, the Conference of Latin American Geographers honored him with its Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award and, in 2018, with its Preston E. James Eminent Career Award. He has fifteen book titles to his credit, among them Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, [1985] 2015) and A Beauty That Hurts: Life and Death in Guatemala (Toronto: Between the Lines, [1995] 2019). Follow Dr. Bob on Twitter: @ProfessorHuish