Indignant Liberalism: Political Protest and Generational Change in El Salvador

Cervantes and Velasquez Room, Bay Tree Building

In 2013 anthropologist Ellen Moodie embedded with indignados—young middle-class protestors demanding that the government live up to its liberal commitments—to better understand the course of political change since the civil war. In this talk she discusses her forthcoming book, which starts with her work with urban activists of what she calls the “post-postwar” generation. She […]

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