Centroamérica más allá del postconflicto: un laboratorio de contemporaneidad

Abstract

Central America has been interpreted through the category of “post-conflict”, a category that has exhausted its analytical potential. Based on the cases presented in the dossier, this article proposes to interpret the transformations affecting this geographical area, beyond the effects of the Cold War, understanding it as a laboratory in which the current contradictions of the global world are expressed. This complexity calls for a reorientation of the social sciences' gaze, without the overcoming of the category implying the deprivation of social analysis of a necessary historical depth.