Civic engagement in extreme times: The remaking of justice among Guatemala’s “postwar” generation
dc.contributor.author | Bellino, Michelle J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-09-09T23:24:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-09-09T23:24:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-09-09 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/108385 | |
dc.description.abstract | In recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the field of youth civic engagement, though little of this work has been conducted in fragile democracies contending with legacies of war and authoritarianism. This study explores how Guatemalan postwar generation youth develop as civic actors under extreme conditions of violence, social and political distrust, and a dwindling space for public expression. Drawing from ethnographic research conducted in rural and urban Guatemala, this study demonstrates how young people’s sense of civic efficacy interacts with their interpretations of historical injustice and the civic messages mediated by teachers, families, peers, and communities. Young people struggle to define and enact appropriate civic action, at times working outside unjust systems as a means of fostering change. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The research presented in this article has been generously supported by the United States Institute of Peace and Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. I am deeply grateful for the mentorship I have received from Drs. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Meira Levinson, and Karen Murphy, and the added guidance from Sarah Dryden-Peterson and the Mowana Lab, who encouraged me to pursue this paper. An earlier draft of this article was selected by the Comparative and International Education Society’s Civic and Democratic Education Special Interest Group for the 2014 Judith Torney-Purta Outstanding Paper Award. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Youth Civic Engagement, Postwar, Legacies of War, Authoritarianism, Guatemala | en_US |
dc.title | Civic engagement in extreme times: The remaking of justice among Guatemala’s “postwar” generation | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Education | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Education, Educational Studies | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108385/1/Civics in extremis_Bellino_DeepBlue.pdf | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108385/4/Bellino_Civic engagement in extreme times_ECSJ.pdf | |
dc.identifier.source | Under consideration | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of Civics in extremis_Bellino_DeepBlue.pdf : Bellino_Civic engagement in extreme times: The remaking of justice among Guatemala’s “postwar” generation | |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of Bellino_Civic engagement in extreme times_ECSJ.pdf : "Online first" edition of published text | |
dc.owningcollname | Education, School of |
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