Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813549354)

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.

Author: Irina Carlota Silber
ISBN-10: 0813549353
ISBN-13: 9780813549354
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/29/2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2011