Title Youth in postwar Guatemala : education and civic identity in transition / Michelle J. Bellino

Published New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies Rutgers series in childhood studies. Contents Series Page ; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1: Citizen, Interrupted; Chapter 2: Education and Conflict in Guatemala; Chapter 3: International Academy: The No-Blame Generation and the Post-Postwar; Chapter 4: Paulo Freire Institute: The All-or-Nothing Generation and the Spiral of the Ongoing Past; Chapter 5: Sun and Moon: The No-Future Generation and the Struggle to Escape; Chapter 6: Tzolok Ochoch: The Lucha Generation and the Struggle to Overcome; Chapter 7: What Stands in the Way; Chapter 8: The Hopes and Risks of Waiting; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher "This book centers on the lives of young people in the violent aftermath of Guatemala's civil war. Once cast as ambassadors of the postwar peace and democracy, Guatemalan youth are routinely criminalized, feared, and excluded from civic spaces. Comprising a multi-sited ethnography, Bellino documents the ways that adolescents at four schools, embedded in urban and rural communities, learn about and make meaning of their country's history of authoritarianism, while developing their civic identities within a struggling democracy. Through rich ethnographic accounts, she traces youth experiences from schools to their homes and communities in order to understand how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice travel--often contentiously--across public and private spaces, as well as between generations. In doing so, we see how young people respond to educational silences and the rare opportunities to critically examine injustice, while shaping an evolving sense of themselves as civic actors. Youth draw on histories of ethnic, class, and political marginalization in making everyday choices, as they decide whether to engage with, trust, question, or challenge fellow citizens and the institutional structures that organize their society. The book deepens our understanding of how postwar political processes and global discourses of peace, democracy, and transitional justice influence educational reform and everyday opportunities in and outside of schools to narrate, commemorate, and contest injustice. In a society still marked by 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."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 15, 2017) Subject Education -- Social aspects -- Guatemala Youth -- Guatemala -- Social conditions Youth -- Guatemala -- Attitudes Educational sociology -- Guatemala Social justice -- Guatemala POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. HISTORY -- Latin America -- Central America. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Developing Countries. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Education -- Social aspects Educational sociology Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Social justice Youth -- Attitudes Youth -- Social conditions SUBJECT Guatemala -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1996 -- Influence Subject Guatemala Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016038035 ISBN 9780813588025 0813588022 9780813588018 0813588014 9780813588018 9780813590899 0813590892

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