Contact: Henrik Rønsbo
Western El Salvador has been the epicentre of three 'civil wars'
over the last century. In 1932 a large scale massacre on indigenous
people took place, in the early 1980s selected communities of
indigenous origin were the targets of massacres and disapperences,
and in the recent decade drug trafficking has penetrated life in
this border region. These forms of violence are placed in a
historical perspective enabling us to interrogate the ways in which
subjectivity and social identity are molded by violent events.
Methods
Ethnographic and archival research
Publications
1. Ronsbo, Henrik (1997) State Formation and Property -
Reflections on the Political Technologies of Space in Central
America, i: Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 10, # 1.
2. Ronsbo, Henrik (1997) Indians with Baseball Caps: The Social
Effects of Ethno-Discourse in the village of San Ramon de
Huitzapán, i: Livelihood, Identity and Instability, ed. Fiona
Wilson, Copenhagen: Centre for Development Research.
3. Ronsbo, Henrik (1999) Qué Partidazo! Fútbol y Etnicidad en una
Sociedad Post-Guerra, i: Violencia y Espacio Social - estudio
sobres conflicto y recuperación, ed. Fiona Wilson (Lima, Peru)
4. Ronsbo, Henrik (1998) Du Dræbte Vores Fædre - Idag Vinder vi
over Dig I: Jordens Folk, # 3, September 1998.
5. Ronsbo, Henrik (2003) The embodiment of Male Identities -
Alliances and Cleavages in Salvadoran Soccer, i: Performing
Bodies: Sport, Dance and Identity, eds. Noel Dyck and Eduardo
Archetti, London: Berg Publishers.
6. Ronsbo, Henrik (2004) This is not culture" - the effects of
ethno-discourse and ethno-politics In El Salvador, i: Community,
Politics, and the Nation-State in Twentieth-Century El Salvador,
eds. Aldo Lauria Santiago and Leigh Binford, Pittsburg: University
of Pittsburgh.