Description
Through wealthy ethnographic accounts, Youth in Postwar Guatemala, traces youth experiences in schools, homes, and communities, to inspect how knowledge and attitudes toward historical injustice traverse private and non-private spaces, in addition to generations. Bellino documents the ways in which young people critically examine injustice even as 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 incorrect democracy they inherited, and safely looking ahead to the only they were promised…