Indignant Liberalism
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3400-3 (ISBN)
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The conclusion of El Salvador’s long civil war, in 1992, was supposed to bring about equality and political freedom. Leftist insurgents laid down arms, and the government formally embraced liberal ideals. Yet today, El Salvador is ruled by an authoritarian president who came to power via unconstitutional means. What went wrong?
Anthropologist and journalist 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. Yet the “post-postwar” generation is only the latest demographic disappointed with liberalism in practice. Their revolutionary predecessors responded to a twentieth-century “racial liberalism” that saw descendants of colonists “civilizing” Indigenous people while dispossessing them of lands and mobilizing them for labor. Today, the failure to make good on the promises of postwar liberalism has inspired robust support for strongman Nayib Bukele. Moodie argues that El Salvador’s case, though inflected by local concerns, is not unique. Rather, it is another stark demonstration of how liberalism’s imaginary social contract gives rise to populist authoritarianism.
Ellen Moodie is an associate professor of anthropology and director of Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace and Central America in the New Millennium.
List of Abbreviations
Introduction. Reckoning with Liberalism’s Contradictions in El Salvador
Chapter 1. From Las Casas to Brazos caÍdos: Liberal Constellations
Chapter 2. Malls, Cars, and Revolution: El Salvador’s Middle Classes
Chapter 3. Generation: Gaps, Shadows, and Rebirths
Chapter 4. The Indignados Protests and the Demand for Institutionality
Chapter 5. #ZapatazoLimpio: Crowds, Spontaneity, and a Clash
Chapter 6. En pie de guerra / On the Brink of War: Liberalism, Democracy, and Violence
Conclusion. Seeking Revolution, Finding (Il)Liberalism
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-3400-9 / 1477334009 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-3400-3 / 9781477334003 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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