Remembering Violence: How Nations Grapple with their Difficult Pasts

ISBN-13: 9780367534806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 134 str.

Robin Maria Delugan

Opis

Based on extensive ethnographic research in El Salvador, Spain, and the Dominican Republic, this book examines the contemporary effects of the violent legacies of the 20^th century, exploring the manner in which engagement with significant public sites of memory results in challenges to dominant conceptions of the nation.

Spis treści

1. When Nations Remember Past Violence  2. Indigeneity and Nation in El Salvador  3. Spain: Democratization and the Right to Decide the Future Nation  4. "That is Not My Constitution": Borders and Exclusions in the Dominican Republic  5. Remembering Violence and Reimagining the Future Nation

O autorze

Robin Maria DeLugan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Merced, USA, and the author of Reimagining National Belonging: Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context (2012).