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Reimagining National Belonging
Robin Maria DeLugan
其他書名
Post-Civil War El Salvador in a Global Context
出版University of Arizona Press, 2012-12-06
主題Social Science / Anthropology / CulturalSocial Science / General
ISBN08165093959780816509393
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=XGYFr60CI8kC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Reimagining National Belonging is the first sustained critical examination of postÐcivil war El Salvador. It describes how one nation, after an extended and divisive conflict, took up the challenge of generating social unity and shared meanings around ideas of the nation. In tracing state-led efforts to promote the concepts of national culture, history, and identity, Robin DeLugan highlights the sites and practicesÑas well as the complexitiesÑof nation-building in the twenty-first century.

Examining events that unfolded between 1992 and 2011, DeLugan both illustrates the idiosyncrasies of state and society in El Salvador and opens a larger portal into conditions of constructing a state in the present day around the globeÑparticularly the process of democratization in an age of neoliberalism. She demonstrates how academics, culture experts, popular media, and the United Nations and other international agencies have all helped shape ideas about national belonging in El Salvador. She also reveals the efforts that have been made to include populations that might have been overlooked, including indigenous people and faraway citizens not living inside the countryÕs borders. And she describes how history and memory projects have begun to recall the nationÕs violent past with the goal of creating a more just and equitable nation.

This illuminating case study fills a gap in the scholarship about culture and society in contemporary El Salvador, while offering an Òethnography of the stateÓ that situates El Salvador in a global context.