Youth in Postwar Guatemala: Education and Civic Identity in Transition

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Winner of the 2018 Comparative & International Education Society's Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award and the 2018 Council on Anthropology of Education's Outstanding Book Award 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...   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 About the Author Read More in the Series