Women's Solidarity at the Intersection of a Masculinist Peace in El Salvador
Speaker: Elizabeth Velásquez
Date: January 23, 2025
Time: 3:35pm
Address: Room 2008, Global Education Center
Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada (Department of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) is a socio-cultural anthropologist specializing in intersectional justice and violence, gender relations, and racialization in Latin America, with a focus on El Salvador. She earned her PhD in social anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. Through her work on the gendered dynamics of grassroots peacemaking, Velásquez Estrada examines the central paradox of male gang members who simultaneously position themselves as purveyors of violence and peacemakers. Using intersectionality as an analytical lens, her work specifically traces how women relatives of male gang members engage in a complex politics of solidarity with their relatives’ peacemaking efforts and explores the layered politics of women’s demands for intersectional justice to transition Salvadoran society from conflict to peace.
Dr. Velásquez Estrada’s research has been supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Inter-American Foundation’s Grassroots Development Fellowship, the Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship: Gender Justice in the Era of Human Rights, and the National Science Foundation: Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She is a 2024-25 National Humanities Center Fellow.
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