Youth in Postwar Guatemala
Title | Youth in Postwar Guatemala PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle J. Bellino |
Publisher | Rutgers Childhood Studies |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 9780813587998 |
Through rich ethnographic accounts, Youth in Postwar Guatemala, traces youth experiences in schools, homes, and communities, examining how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice develop through formal and informal educational interactions. Michelle J. Bellino shows how a new generation struggles to unlearn authoritarianism and develop new democratic civic identities.
Youth in Postwar Guatemala
Title | Youth in Postwar Guatemala PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle J. Bellino |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2017-06-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0813588014 |
In the aftermath of armed conflict, how do new generations of young people learn about peace, justice, and democracy? Michelle J. Bellino describes how, following Guatemala’s civil war, adolescents at four schools in urban and rural communities learn about their country’s history of authoritarianism and develop civic identities within a fragile postwar democracy. Through rich ethnographic accounts, Youth in Postwar Guatemala, traces youth experiences in schools, homes, and communities, to examine how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice traverse public and private spaces, as well as generations. Bellino documents the ways that young people critically examine injustice while shaping an evolving sense of themselves as civic actors. In a country still marked by the legacies of war and division, young people navigate between the perilous work of critiquing the flawed democracy they inherited, and safely waiting for the one they were promised...
Youth in Postwar Guatemala
Title | Youth in Postwar Guatemala PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle J. Bellino |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2017-06-30 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0813588022 |
In the aftermath of armed conflict, how do new generations of young people learn about peace, justice, and democracy? Michelle J. Bellino describes how, following Guatemala’s civil war, adolescents at four schools in urban and rural communities learn about their country’s history of authoritarianism and develop civic identities within a fragile postwar democracy. Through rich ethnographic accounts, Youth in Postwar Guatemala, traces youth experiences in schools, homes, and communities, to examine how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice traverse public and private spaces, as well as generations. Bellino documents the ways that young people critically examine injustice while shaping an evolving sense of themselves as civic actors. In a country still marked by the legacies of war and division, young people navigate between the perilous work of critiquing the flawed democracy they inherited, and safely waiting for the one they were promised...
Adiós Niño
Title | Adiós Niño PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah T. Levenson |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2013-04-09 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0822353156 |
In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they expected to survive. Levenson relates the stark changes in the Maras to global, national, and urban deterioration; transregional gangs that intersect with the drug trade; and the Guatemalan military's obliteration of radical popular movements and of social imaginaries of solidarity. Part of Guatemala City's reconfigured social, political, and cultural milieu, with their members often trapped in Guatemala's growing prison system, the gangs are used to justify remilitarization in Guatemala's contemporary postwar, post-peace era. Portraying the Maras as microcosms of broader tragedies, and pointing out the difficulties faced by those youth who seek to escape the gangs, Levenson poses important questions about the relationship between trauma, memory, and historical agency.
Razing Kids
Title | Razing Kids PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey C. Sanders |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1107110580 |
Analyzes the relationship between the postwar demographic explosion of youth and the emergence of environmentalism in the rapidly changing American West.
Securing the City
Title | Securing the City PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Lewis O'Neill |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2011-03-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0822349582 |
Anthropologists and historians examine how postwar violence in Guatemala City is reconfiguring urban space, transforming the relationship between city and country, and exacerbating structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination.
Paper Cadavers
Title | Paper Cadavers PDF eBook |
Author | Kirsten Weld |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2014-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 082237658X |
In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country's National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America. The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala's struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Tracing the history of the police files as they were transformed from weapons of counterinsurgency into tools for post-conflict reckoning, Weld sheds light on the country's fraught transition from war to an uneasy peace, reflecting on how societies forget and remember political violence.