Title Reimagining national belonging : post-civil war El Salvador in a global context / Robin Maria DeLugan

Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2012] ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 157 pages) Contents Introduction : Nation Out of War -- Concentrating on Culture : Peace, Schooling, and Values -- Drawing on the Past : History, Archaeology, Inclusions, and Exclusions -- Envisioning Indigenous Participation : State Ambivalence, Local Activism, and International Influences -- Remapping the Nation : Faraway Citizens, Transnational State Practices, and the Impact of Migration -- Remembering and Belonging : Museums, Monuments, and National Memory Including the Violence of Civil War -- Conclusion Summary This book offers a critical examination of post-civil 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, the author highlights the sites and practices - as well as the complexities - of nation-building in the twenty-first century. Examining events that unfolded between 1992 and 2011, the author both illustrates the idiosyncrasies of state and society in El Salvador and opens a larger portal into conditions of constructing a state in the twenty-first century around the globe - particularly 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 country's borders. And she describes how history and memory projects have begun to recall the nation's 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 "ethnography of the state" that situates El Salvador in a global context. -- Book jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-150) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Civil war -- Political aspects -- El Salvador -- History Civil war -- Social aspects -- El Salvador -- History Political culture -- El Salvador -- History Nationalism -- El Salvador -- History Collective memory -- El Salvador -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Collective memory Nationalism Political culture Politics and government Social conditions Bürgerkrieg Gruppenidentität SUBJECT El Salvador -- Politics and government -- 1992- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002781 El Salvador -- Social conditions -- 20th century El Salvador -- Social conditions -- 21st century Subject El Salvador El Salvador Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012013871 ISBN 0816599459 9780816599455

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