R. Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)
Project Title
Intersectional Justice Denied: Warring Masculinity, Violence, and Peacemaking in Post-Accords El Salvador
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2024–25
Velásquez Estrada revised her book argument and drafted a prospectus for her manuscript, tentatively titled Beyond Masculinist Peace: An Intersectional Approach to Peacemaking in El Salvador. She revised and proofread her forthcoming volume (and her coeditors’ Shanya Cordis, Maya Berry, Claudia Chavez Arguelles, and Sarah Ihmoud), Fugitive Anthropology: Embodying Activist Research. She revised, proofread, and indexed her chapter, “Fugitive Collaborative Research: Seeking Mutuality as Accountability,” to be featured within the same volume.
Velásquez Estrada also wrote the article, “Salvadoran Women’s Solidarity: Love, Carceral Peace, and Patriarchy,” for Critical Criminology’s forthcoming special issue on critical gang studies edited by Dennis Rodgers.
Finally, Velásquez Estrada revised and published the Spanish translation of the article, “Intersectional Justice Denied: Racist Warring Masculinity, Negative Peace, and Violence in Post-Peace Accords El Salvador,” in Corporalidades combativas: Género y Sexualidades en la Guerra internal Salvadoraña (1970-1992) [Combative Corporalities: Gender and Sexualities in the Salvadoran Internal War (1970-1992)], edited by Amaral Arévalo and Ana Silvia Ortiz Gómez.
She began revising the Spanish translation of her (and coauthors’ Maya Berry, Claudia Chávez Argüelles, Shanya Cordis, and Sarah Ihmoud) coauthored article, “Toward a Fugitive Anthropology: Gender, Race, and Violence in the Field.” The article will be featured in Giros: Textos clásicos de antropología contemporánea (Turns: Classical Texts of Contemporary Anthropology) edited by Ángel Díaz de Rada.
She has coordinated the translation of her book chapter, “Fugitive Collaborative Research: Seeking Mutuality as Accountability,” which is set to be featured in the special issue of Revista de Antropología Experimental (Journal of Experimental Anthropologies) on “Género, Cuerpo, y Violencias Sexuales en Etnografía” (Gender, Body, and Sexual Violence in Ethnography), edited by Beatriz Pérez Galán and Cristina Larrea Killinger.