Everyday Revolutionaries : : Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador / / Irina Carlota Silber.

Everyday Revolutionaries provides a longitudinal and rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. By exploring political processes in one of El Salvador's former war zones-a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation-Irina Carlota Silber of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 7
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
List of Organizations --
Cast of Characters --
Introduction --
1. Entangled Aftermaths --
2. Histories of Violence/Histories of Organizing --
3. Rank-and-File History --
4. NGOs in the Postwar Period --
5. Not Revolutionary Enough? --
6. Cardboard Democracy --
7. Conning Revolutionaries --
8. The Postwar Highway --
Epilogue: Amor Lejos, Amor de Pendejos --
Notes --
References --
Index
Summary:Everyday Revolutionaries provides a longitudinal and rigorous analysis of the legacies of war in a community racked by political violence. By exploring political processes in one of El Salvador's former war zones-a region known for its peasant revolutionary participation-Irina Carlota Silber offers a searing portrait of the entangled aftermaths of confrontation and displacement, aftermaths that have produced continued deception and marginalization. Silber provides one of the first rubrics for understanding and contextualizing postwar disillusionment, drawing on her ethnographic fieldwork and research on immigration to the United States by former insurgents. With an eye for gendered experiences, she unmasks how community members are asked, contradictorily and in different contexts, to relinquish their identities as "revolutionaries" and to develop a new sense of themselves as productive yet marginal postwar citizens via the same "participation" that fueled their revolutionary action. Beautifully written and offering rich stories of hope and despair, Everyday Revolutionaries contributes to important debates in public anthropology and the ethics of engaged research practices.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780813550183
9783110688610
DOI:10.36019/9780813550183
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Irina Carlota Silber.