Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada
Biographic Data
| ID | 238805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Velásquez Estrada |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth Velásquez |
| FAMILY NAME | Estrada |
| SIGNATURE | ESTRADA E V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8194-6938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Investigación Colaborativa Fugitiva
This article explores mutuality as a mechanism of accountability in fugitive collaborative research. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2015, it argues that, to advance on a liberation anthropology, it is necessary to create mechanisms that address the vulnerabilities of “native” researchers. The text invites us to consider how histories of colonialism and imperialism have positioned certain researchers at the lower end of power rela…
Women’s Politics of Solidarity in El Salvador
(MS-13) leader in El Salvador, through the perspective of and interviews with his cousin, Alicia. I argue that women relatives of male gang members' complex practices of solidarity reveal how patriarchy shapes dynamics across scales, fueling gang and state violence as a practice of protection for family and nation. Failing to address patriarchy condemns security efforts to ongoing violence as part of state measures to attain peace
Intersectional justice denied
The skyrocketing violence in Central America calls upon scholars to examine the needed conditions for peace. This article challenges the assumption that the absence of violence among factions in conflict is the chief goal around which peacemaking efforts should operate. Based on ethnographic research with women relatives of male gang members and civil war veterans in El Salvador, I argue that the 1992 Salvadoran Peace Accords that ended twelve ye…
The Limitations and Liberatory Potential of Feminist Anthropology (Part Two)
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
Intersectional justice denied
The skyrocketing violence in Central America calls upon scholars to examine the needed conditions for peace. This article challenges the assumption that the absence of violence among factions in conflict is the chief goal around which peacemaking efforts should operate. Based on ethnographic research with women relatives of male gang members and civil war veterans in El Salvador, I argue that the 1992 Salvadoran Peace Accords that ended twelve ye…
Toward a Fugitive Anthropology
In this essay, we point to the ways in which activist research methodologies have been complicit with the dominant logics of traditional research methods, including notions of fieldwork as a masculinist rite of passage. Paradoxically, while activist research narrates the experiences of violence enacted on racialized, gendered (queer and gender-nonconforming) bodies, the complexities of doing anthropology with those same bodies have tended to be e…
The Limitations and Liberatory Potential of Feminist Anthropology (Part Two)
Intersectional justice denied
The skyrocketing violence in Central America calls upon scholars to examine the needed conditions for peace. This article challenges the assumption that the absence of violence among factions in conflict is the chief goal around which peacemaking efforts should operate. Based on ethnographic research with women relatives of male gang members and civil war veterans in El Salvador, I argue that the 1992 Salvadoran Peace Accords that ended twelve ye…
Investigación Colaborativa Fugitiva
This article explores mutuality as a mechanism of accountability in fugitive collaborative research. Drawing on fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2015, it argues that, to advance on a liberation anthropology, it is necessary to create mechanisms that address the vulnerabilities of “native” researchers. The text invites us to consider how histories of colonialism and imperialism have positioned certain researchers at the lower end of power rela…
Women’s Politics of Solidarity in El Salvador
(MS-13) leader in El Salvador, through the perspective of and interviews with his cousin, Alicia. I argue that women relatives of male gang members' complex practices of solidarity reveal how patriarchy shapes dynamics across scales, fueling gang and state violence as a practice of protection for family and nation. Failing to address patriarchy condemns security efforts to ongoing violence as part of state measures to attain peace
Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Health, and Social Inequality (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Praxis (2 works)