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This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around
the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting
the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of
state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad
Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua. Using a critical ethnographic
approach to frame the experiences of faculty and students through
vignettes, chapters present contextualized, analytical
contributions from students, scholars, and university leaders to
draw attention to the activism present within teaching, research,
and administration while simultaneously calling attention to
critical higher education and international solidarity as crucial
means of maintaining academic freedom, university autonomy,
oppositional knowledge production, and social outreach in higher
education globally. This text will benefit researchers, students,
and academics in the fields of higher education, educational policy
and politics, and international and comparative education. Those
interested in equality and human rights, Central America, and the
themes of revolution and protest more broadly will also benefit
from this volume.
This innovative volume makes a key contribution to debates around
the role of the university as a space of resistance by highlighting
the liberatory practices undertaken to oppose dual pressures of
state repression and neoliberal reform at the Universidad
Centroamericana (UCA) in Nicaragua. Using a critical ethnographic
approach to frame the experiences of faculty and students through
vignettes, chapters present contextualized, analytical
contributions from students, scholars, and university leaders to
draw attention to the activism present within teaching, research,
and administration while simultaneously calling attention to
critical higher education and international solidarity as crucial
means of maintaining academic freedom, university autonomy,
oppositional knowledge production, and social outreach in higher
education globally. This text will benefit researchers, students,
and academics in the fields of higher education, educational policy
and politics, and international and comparative education. Those
interested in equality and human rights, Central America, and the
themes of revolution and protest more broadly will also benefit
from this volume.
This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25
years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El
Salvador, to follow the trajectories-geographic, temporal,
storied-of several extended Salvadoran families. Traveling back and
forth in time and across borders, Silber narrates the everyday
unfolding of diasporic lives rich with acts of labor, love, and
renewed calls for memory, truth, and accountability in El
Salvador's long postwar. Through a retrospective and intimate
ethnographic method that examines archives of memories and troubles
the categories that have come to stand for "El Salvador" such as
alarming violent numbers, Silber considers the lives of young
Salvadorans who were brought up in an everyday radical politics and
then migrated to the United States after more than a decade of
peace and democracy. She reflects on this generation of
migrants-the 1.5 insurgent generation born to forgotten former
rank-and-file militants-as well as their intergenerational,
transnational families to unpack the assumptions and typical ways
of knowing in postwar ethnography. As the 1.5 generation sustains
their radical political project across borders, circulates the
products of their migrant labor through remittances, and engages in
collective social care for the debilitated bodies of their loved
ones, they transform and depart from expectations of the wounded
postwar that offer us hope for the making of more just global
futures.
This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25
years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El
Salvador, to follow the trajectories-geographic, temporal,
storied-of several extended Salvadoran families. Traveling back and
forth in time and across borders, Silber narrates the everyday
unfolding of diasporic lives rich with acts of labor, love, and
renewed calls for memory, truth, and accountability in El
Salvador's long postwar. Through a retrospective and intimate
ethnographic method that examines archives of memories and troubles
the categories that have come to stand for "El Salvador" such as
alarming violent numbers, Silber considers the lives of young
Salvadorans who were brought up in an everyday radical politics and
then migrated to the United States after more than a decade of
peace and democracy. She reflects on this generation of
migrants-the 1.5 insurgent generation born to forgotten former
rank-and-file militants-as well as their intergenerational,
transnational families to unpack the assumptions and typical ways
of knowing in postwar ethnography. As the 1.5 generation sustains
their radical political project across borders, circulates the
products of their migrant labor through remittances, and engages in
collective social care for the debilitated bodies of their loved
ones, they transform and depart from expectations of the wounded
postwar that offer us hope for the making of more just global
futures.
In Revolutionaries on the Postwar Highway: Disillusionment in El
Salvador, the author chronicles the political violence, collective
trauma, and continued injustice for the people of El Salvador as
they transition to peace and democracy following the twelve-year
civil war between the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and
the Salvadoran government. The book is centered largely upon twenty
months of fieldwork spanning from 1993-2007 in the former war zone
of Chalatenango. Following the war, this area was the focus of
national and international reconstruction projects. The book is
mainly structured around two central moments, the immediate postwar
period of reconstruction (1993-1998), and the more recent period of
emigration to the United States (2000-2007). Giving a long term
view of what happens in the aftermath of a protracted war, Silber
traces the lives of the rank and file members of this historic
struggle for justice and reconstruction, following community
members along their journey from revolutionary activists to postwar
development recipients and ambivalent grassroots actors, to in many
cases now undocumented migrants. Silber pays particular attention
to the gendered dimensions of the clash between a revolutionary
social project and the demands of postwar reconstruction and
neoliberalism. She argues that the dynamics of postwar rebuilding
served to remarginalize members of destroyed communities. This book
will contribute to the recent wave of anthropological scholarship
on political violence, providing an important case study on
transitional justice and reconciliation.
In Revolutionaries on the Postwar Highway: Disillusionment in El
Salvador, the author chronicles the political violence, collective
trauma, and continued injustice for the people of El Salvador as
they transition to peace and democracy following the twelve-year
civil war between the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front and
the Salvadoran government. The book is centered largely upon twenty
months of fieldwork spanning from 1993-2007 in the former war zone
of Chalatenango. Following the war, this area was the focus of
national and international reconstruction projects. The book is
mainly structured around two central moments, the immediate postwar
period of reconstruction (1993-1998), and the more recent period of
emigration to the United States (2000-2007). Giving a long term
view of what happens in the aftermath of a protracted war, Silber
traces the lives of the rank and file members of this historic
struggle for justice and reconstruction, following community
members along their journey from revolutionary activists to postwar
development recipients and ambivalent grassroots actors, to in many
cases now undocumented migrants. Silber pays particular attention
to the gendered dimensions of the clash between a revolutionary
social project and the demands of postwar reconstruction and
neoliberalism. She argues that the dynamics of postwar rebuilding
served to remarginalize members of destroyed communities. This book
will contribute to the recent wave of anthropological scholarship
on political violence, providing an important case study on
transitional justice and reconciliation.
"With this book, anthropology takes its place in the world:
breaking innovative ground, creating new sensibilities, offering
academic inspiration to a crisis."--Carolyn Nordstrom, professor of
anthropology, University of Notre Dame "Engaged Observer includes
rich ethnographic insights into the personal and social aspects of
suffering and represents a significant contribution to debates on
anthropological ethics and the place of advocacy in
scholarship."--Richard A. Wilson, author of The Politics of Truth
and Reconciliation in South Africa "This engaging and compelling
volume uses a wide range of case studies to suggest ways that
anthropologists and other types of observers can be politically,
emotionally, and personally engaged with the work they carry
out."--Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,
University of Oregon Anthropology has long been associated with an
ethos of "engagement." The field's core methods and practices
involve long-term interpersonal contact between researchers and
their study participants, giving major research topics in the field
a distinctively human face. Can research findings be authentic and
objective? Are anthropologists able to use their data to aid the
participants of their study, and is that aid always welcome? In
Engaged Observer, Victoria Sanford and Asale Angel-Ajani bring
together an international array of scholars who have been embedded
in some of the most conflict-ridden and dangerous zones in the
world to reflect the role and responsibility of anthropological
inquiry. They explore issues of truth and objectivity, the role of
the academic, the politics of memory, and the impact of race,
gender, and social position on the research process. Through
ethnographic case studies, they offer models for conducting engaged
research and illustrate the contradictions and challenges of doing
so. Victoria Sanford is an associate professor of anthropology at
Lehman College, City University of New York. Asale Angel-Ajani is
and assistant professor in the Gallatin School at New York
University.
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