‘Dreaming the dream of a dead man’ memory, media, and youth in postwar El Salvador

Autor: Rafael Alarcón Medina
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Zdroj: Dialectical Anthropology. 38:481-497
ISSN: 1573-0786
0304-4092
DOI: 10.1007/s10624-014-9350-5
Popis: Using postwar El Salvador as a case study, I argue against the dominant paradigm that situates the repressive role of the state as both the central object of memorialization and the main subject of history. Instead, I focus on the ways in which the memory of insurgent collective action is constructed among young members of the popular classes in postwar El Salvador. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research in the communities of northern Morazan, I understand memory as the suspended time of praxis. Media—such as Internet, Facebook, and TV play a key role in this process, impinging on the ways youth relate with the revolutionary past of their relatives making sense of their present living conditions. I argue that memory must be understood as a particular form of praxis, one that is embedded in historic concrete forms of class constitution in which the role of media has become a constitutive element in the labors of memory, particularly among young people.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz: