Luciana Chamorro Elizondo is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2021-23 academic years. She is a political anthropologist who specializes in Central America and writes on revolution and its afterlives, populist politics, authoritarianism, affect and aesthetics. Her larger conceptual interests are in political theology, debt, inheritance and generational difference, political violence, and feminist and queer imaginaries of the future.

As a WCED Fellow, Luciana will continue to develop her book manuscript, "Afterlives of Revolution: Authoritarian Populism and Political Passions in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua", incorporating field research conducted in Nicaragua after the 2018 April uprisings, a pivotal turning point after which the Ortega regime left behind the pursuit of hegemony and instead turned to the use of force and the establishment of a police state to sustain itself in power. She will also advance a series of related projects, including a collaborative and comparative study tentatively titled “Authoritarian Thresholds” which uses ethnographic methods to consider under what conditions democratically elected regimes tip toward the use of exceptional force to remain in power.

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