1st Edition
Remembering Violence How Nations Grapple with their Difficult Pasts
By Robin Maria DeLugan
Copyright 2021
134 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
134 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
134 Pages
12 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume examines the ways in which the violent legacies of the twentieth century continue to affect the concept of the nation. Through a study of three societies’ commemoration of notorious episodes of 1930s state violence, the author considers the manner in which attention to the state violence authoritarianism, and exclusions of the last century have resulted in challenges to dominant... Read more
1. When Nations Remember Past Violence 2. Indigeneity and Nation in El Salvador 3. Spain: Democratization and the Right to Decide the Future Nation 4. "That is Not My Constitution": Borders and Exclusions in the Dominican Republic 5. Remembering Violence and Reimagining the Future Nation
Biography
Robin Maria DeLugan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Merced, USA, and the author of Reimagining National Belonging: Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context (2012).
