Mneesha Gellman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 156285 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mneesha Gellman |
| NOMBRES | Mneesha |
| APELLIDO | Gellman |
| FIRMA | GELLMAN M |
| AFILIACIONES | Emerson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7610-2597 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Hidden in Plain Sight
This article examines the social and political impacts of President Nayib Bukele’s 2023 opening of a megaprison in El Salvador by analyzing his government-funded international public relations campaign. We chronicle how the design of the prison, along with policies for arresting, detaining, and prosecuting Salvadorans for alleged gang-related crimes, offers a mirage of transparency that obstructs the visibility needed to protect the human rights …
Inability to Protect
This article focuses on how the Mexican state remains unable to protect certain categories of people based on particular identity characteristics. I draw on examples of gang-related corruption within the police and the judiciary, as well as the impact of cultures of violence and impunity on vulnerable categories of citizens, especially women and girls. I also explain some of what expert witnesses can contribute to United States immigration courts…
Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks
This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks.
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom
Volume 44
How Did We Get Here? Racial Reckoning To Racist RetrenchmentIn the summer of 2020, widespread protests against systemic racism swept the nation and the world in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.These protests built upon decades and centuries of collective resistance against racial injustice, and they also signaled a shift.People and communities that had never protested before-and had never uttered the words …
Unsettling settler colonialism in words and land
This article examines two case studies of unsettling settler colonialism in the far north of California: the inclusion of Yurok language electives in public high schools, and land return to the Wiyot Tribe. These two cases demonstrate repertoires of Indigenous resistance to historic and ongoing culturecide—the killing of culture—and show what unsettling settler colonialism looks like in the region. The central research question in this article is…
Speaking Up
Identity politics are fraught. High school is a prime location where such politics play out and interface with state-dictated norms and values about acceptable social behavior. This article examines identity politics during the Trump era in two far Northern California high schools to better understand the impact on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students. I argue that while the Trump effect allowed hostility towards BIPOC people t…
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom
Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity. In this book, Mneesha Gellman examines how Indigenous high school students resist assimilation and assert their identities through access to Indigenous language classes in public schools. Drawing on ethnographic accounts, qualitative interviews, focus groups, and surveys, Gellman’s fieldwork examines and compares the experiences of students…
Collaborative Methodology with Indigenous Communities
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Collaborative Methodologies
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Narratives, Contention, and the Politics of Memory
The right to learn our (m)other tongues
This article critically examines bilingual, intercultural education policies and practices in El Salvador and Mexico. In the context of legacies of assimilation and neoliberal homogenization, certain kinds of citizenship become prioritized over others. This is visible where performances of local identity clash with state mandates about educational content and the language of school instruction. I address the effects of state agendas in schools on…
The Politics of Memory
This essay reviews the following works:Sexual Violence during War and Peace: Gender, Power, and Post-conflict Justice in Peru. By Jelke Boesten. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. ix + 231. 28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822356028
Fighting invisibility
El Salvador and Guatemala underwent civil wars that severely impacted both countries’ most marginalized citizens, including indigenous peoples. Today, teaching and learning the violent past remain challenged in each country, with implications for indigenous and non-indigenous citizens alike. This article examines the impact of democratization in El Salvador and Guatemala in the educational sphere, documenting narrative trends on the topic of the …
People
Teaching silence in the schoolroom
This article addresses the divergent cultures of silence and memorialisation about the civil wars in Sierra Leone and El Salvador, and examines the role that sites of remembering and forgetting play in crafting post-war citizens. In the formal education sector the ministries of education in each country have taken different approaches to teaching the history of the war, with Sierra Leone emphasising forgetting and El Salvador geared towards remem…
Remembering violence
In this article I ask the question: how do citizens use memories of violence in dialogue with a democratizing Turkish state? To address this, I unpack how memories of violence influence solidarity communities in addition to those who are direct descendents of survivors. I also examine how these solidarity communities are widening political space for contemporary dialogue about the Armenian Catastrophe. To demonstrate the connection between memory…
World views in peace building
This article explores post-conflict reconstruction in Cambodia through an analysis of both the dangers of liberal peace building and the positive role that training in capacity building plays in war-torn societies. The central question addressed is how insider–outsider dynamics influence Cambodia's post-conflict reconstruction projects; and what assumptions do international workers and Cambodian NGO staff make about ‘the good life’ that will be c…
From Sulha to Salaam
In this article, we survey conflict resolution in the Arab world and then turn to sulha , a Palestinian peacemaking process, for an in‐depth analysis to distill lessons for Palestinian‐Israeli negotiations. We identify key features of the community‐based practice of sulha that could be invoked at the international level: restoration of honor and dignity, reconciliation in the wider community, and public demarcation of the end of violence. Our arg…
יידיש לעבט/ Yiddish Lives On
ייִדיש לעבט/Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission,." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
In her monograph, Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou explores the relationship between ensuring human rights and constructing peace. She exam
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
In her monograph, Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou explores the relationship between ensuring human rights and constructing peace. She exam
Collaborative Methodologies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The right to learn our (m)other tongues
This article critically examines bilingual, intercultural education policies and practices in El Salvador and Mexico. In the context of legacies of assimilation and neoliberal homogenization, certain kinds of citizenship become prioritized over others. This is visible where performances of local identity clash with state mandates about educational content and the language of school instruction. I address the effects of state agendas in schools on…
Collaborative Methodology with Indigenous Communities
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Memory
This essay reviews the following works:Sexual Violence during War and Peace: Gender, Power, and Post-conflict Justice in Peru. By Jelke Boesten. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. ix + 231. 28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822356028
Fighting invisibility
El Salvador and Guatemala underwent civil wars that severely impacted both countries’ most marginalized citizens, including indigenous peoples. Today, teaching and learning the violent past remain challenged in each country, with implications for indigenous and non-indigenous citizens alike. This article examines the impact of democratization in El Salvador and Guatemala in the educational sphere, documenting narrative trends on the topic of the …
Teaching silence in the schoolroom
This article addresses the divergent cultures of silence and memorialisation about the civil wars in Sierra Leone and El Salvador, and examines the role that sites of remembering and forgetting play in crafting post-war citizens. In the formal education sector the ministries of education in each country have taken different approaches to teaching the history of the war, with Sierra Leone emphasising forgetting and El Salvador geared towards remem…
Remembering violence
In this article I ask the question: how do citizens use memories of violence in dialogue with a democratizing Turkish state? To address this, I unpack how memories of violence influence solidarity communities in addition to those who are direct descendents of survivors. I also examine how these solidarity communities are widening political space for contemporary dialogue about the Armenian Catastrophe. To demonstrate the connection between memory…
World views in peace building
This article explores post-conflict reconstruction in Cambodia through an analysis of both the dangers of liberal peace building and the positive role that training in capacity building plays in war-torn societies. The central question addressed is how insider–outsider dynamics influence Cambodia's post-conflict reconstruction projects; and what assumptions do international workers and Cambodian NGO staff make about ‘the good life’ that will be c…
Narratives, Contention, and the Politics of Memory
From Sulha to Salaam
In this article, we survey conflict resolution in the Arab world and then turn to sulha , a Palestinian peacemaking process, for an in‐depth analysis to distill lessons for Palestinian‐Israeli negotiations. We identify key features of the community‐based practice of sulha that could be invoked at the international level: restoration of honor and dignity, reconciliation in the wider community, and public demarcation of the end of violence. Our arg…
World views in peace building
This article explores post-conflict reconstruction in Cambodia through an analysis of both the dangers of liberal peace building and the positive role that training in capacity building plays in war-torn societies. The central question addressed is how insider–outsider dynamics influence Cambodia's post-conflict reconstruction projects; and what assumptions do international workers and Cambodian NGO staff make about ‘the good life’ that will be c…
Remembering violence
In this article I ask the question: how do citizens use memories of violence in dialogue with a democratizing Turkish state? To address this, I unpack how memories of violence influence solidarity communities in addition to those who are direct descendents of survivors. I also examine how these solidarity communities are widening political space for contemporary dialogue about the Armenian Catastrophe. To demonstrate the connection between memory…
People
Teaching silence in the schoolroom
This article addresses the divergent cultures of silence and memorialisation about the civil wars in Sierra Leone and El Salvador, and examines the role that sites of remembering and forgetting play in crafting post-war citizens. In the formal education sector the ministries of education in each country have taken different approaches to teaching the history of the war, with Sierra Leone emphasising forgetting and El Salvador geared towards remem…
The right to learn our (m)other tongues
This article critically examines bilingual, intercultural education policies and practices in El Salvador and Mexico. In the context of legacies of assimilation and neoliberal homogenization, certain kinds of citizenship become prioritized over others. This is visible where performances of local identity clash with state mandates about educational content and the language of school instruction. I address the effects of state agendas in schools on…
The Politics of Memory
This essay reviews the following works:Sexual Violence during War and Peace: Gender, Power, and Post-conflict Justice in Peru. By Jelke Boesten. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. ix + 231. 28.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780822356028
Fighting invisibility
El Salvador and Guatemala underwent civil wars that severely impacted both countries’ most marginalized citizens, including indigenous peoples. Today, teaching and learning the violent past remain challenged in each country, with implications for indigenous and non-indigenous citizens alike. This article examines the impact of democratization in El Salvador and Guatemala in the educational sphere, documenting narrative trends on the topic of the …
Narratives, Contention, and the Politics of Memory
Collaborative Methodology with Indigenous Communities
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Collaborative Methodologies
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom
Volume 44
How Did We Get Here? Racial Reckoning To Racist RetrenchmentIn the summer of 2020, widespread protests against systemic racism swept the nation and the world in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.These protests built upon decades and centuries of collective resistance against racial injustice, and they also signaled a shift.People and communities that had never protested before-and had never uttered the words …
Unsettling settler colonialism in words and land
This article examines two case studies of unsettling settler colonialism in the far north of California: the inclusion of Yurok language electives in public high schools, and land return to the Wiyot Tribe. These two cases demonstrate repertoires of Indigenous resistance to historic and ongoing culturecide—the killing of culture—and show what unsettling settler colonialism looks like in the region. The central research question in this article is…
Speaking Up
Identity politics are fraught. High school is a prime location where such politics play out and interface with state-dictated norms and values about acceptable social behavior. This article examines identity politics during the Trump era in two far Northern California high schools to better understand the impact on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students. I argue that while the Trump effect allowed hostility towards BIPOC people t…
Indigenous Language Politics in the Schoolroom
Public school classrooms around the world have the power to shape and transform youth culture and identity. In this book, Mneesha Gellman examines how Indigenous high school students resist assimilation and assert their identities through access to Indigenous language classes in public schools. Drawing on ethnographic accounts, qualitative interviews, focus groups, and surveys, Gellman’s fieldwork examines and compares the experiences of students…
Misrepresentation and Silence in United States History Textbooks
This open access book investigates how representation of Native Americans and Mexican-origin im/migrants takes place in high school history textbooks.
יידיש לעבט/ Yiddish Lives On
ייִדיש לעבט/Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission,." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
In her monograph, Protecting Human Rights and Building Peace in Post-Violence Societies, Nasia Hadjigeorgiou explores the relationship between ensuring human rights and constructing peace. She exam
Hidden in Plain Sight
This article examines the social and political impacts of President Nayib Bukele’s 2023 opening of a megaprison in El Salvador by analyzing his government-funded international public relations campaign. We chronicle how the design of the prison, along with policies for arresting, detaining, and prosecuting Salvadorans for alleged gang-related crimes, offers a mirage of transparency that obstructs the visibility needed to protect the human rights …
Inability to Protect
This article focuses on how the Mexican state remains unable to protect certain categories of people based on particular identity characteristics. I draw on examples of gang-related corruption within the police and the judiciary, as well as the impact of cultures of violence and impunity on vulnerable categories of citizens, especially women and girls. I also explain some of what expert witnesses can contribute to United States immigration courts…
Political science (18 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Indigenous (6 obras) · Political Conflict and Governance (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras)