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Everyday
Revolutionaries
Price: $27.95
Subtitle: Gender,
Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador
Authors:
Irina Carlota Silber
Subject: Latin
American Studies, Anthropology,
Gender
Studies
Paper ISBN:
978-0-8135-4935-4
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4934-7
Pages:
288 pages, 7 photographs,
3 maps
Publication Date: September 2010
Series:
Genocide,
Political Violence, Human Rights
Praise:
"This preceptive ethnography not only captures memories, sentiments and hopes, but also examines strategies of managing the present, including the paradox of mass migration to the US. Silber has made a major contribution to the study of postconflict societies, as well as to the centrality of gendered experience. Highly recommended."—Choice
"This is a stunning book. Silber is
brilliantly able to ground her scholarly arguments in extensive
ethnography, based on long-term research in a community with which she
has deep ties."—Ethel
Brooks, author of Unraveling the
Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women's Work
"In this deeply insightful ethnography
of post-war El Salvador, Silber successfully captures the hopes of
Salvadorans for change and revolutionary times. She unmasks how these
hopes are often challenged by the reality of poverty and continued
social, economic, and gendered inequalities."—Lynn Stephen, University
of Oregon
Description:
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.
About the Author:
IRINA CARLOTA (LOTTI) SILBER is an associate professor of
anthropology in the department of interdisciplinary arts and sciences
at City College of New York.
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