Influence of violence on social and gender identity in Latin America
Research project
Contact person: Henrik Roensbo
Relations between violence and social identity (gender, class
and race) has for the last twenty years been one of the most
productive debates in anthropological theory. In particular, these
debates have addressed two issues: Firstly, how does violence shape
humans and human communities and secondly, how do these same
communities of humans legitimize and render meaningful the use of
violence as a means of social interaction?
In both these spheres the project asks the fundamental
question:
How is violence and social practice entangled in the spheres
of everyday life and secondly, how do such entanglements mould
larger social structures and landscapes?
Taking its point of departure in the Latin-American civil wars in
El Salvador, Peru and Guatemala, the project seeks to provide
answers to these questions.