Youth in Postwar Guatemala: Education and Civic Identity in Transition (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies)

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In the aftermath of armed conflict, how do new generations of young people know about peace, justice, and democracy? Michelle J. Bellino describes how, following Guatemala’s civil war, adolescents at four schools in urban and rural communities know about their country’s history of authoritarianism and develop civic identities within a fragile postwar democracy.

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…

 

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