The Violence of Democracy : Political Life in Postwar El Salvador / by Ainhoa Montoya.
Montoya, Ainhoa, author.
2018
JL950-969
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Title The Violence of Democracy : Political Life in Postwar El Salvador / by Ainhoa Montoya.
Author Montoya, Ainhoa, author.
ISBN 9783319763309
331976330X
9783319763293
3319763296
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76330-9
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XVII, 303 pages 2 illustrations, 1 illustration in color.) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-76330-9 doi
9783319763293
Call Number JL950-969
Dewey Decimal Classification 972.84054
Summary This book offers novel insights about the ability of a democracy to accommodate violence. In El Salvador, the end of war has brought about a violent peace, one in which various forms of violence have become incorporated into Salvadorans' imaginaries and enactments of democracy. Based on ethnographic research, The Violence of Democracy argues that war legacies and the country's neoliberalization have enabled an intricate entanglement of violence and political life in postwar El Salvador. This volume explores various manifestations of this entanglement: the clandestine connections between violent entrepreneurs and political actors; the blurring of the licit and illicit through the consolidation of economies of violence; and the reenactment of latent wartime conflicts and political cleavages during postwar electoral seasons. The author also discusses the potential for grassroots memory work and a political party shift to foster hopeful visions of the future and, ultimately, to transform the country's violent democracy. Ainhoa Montoya is Lecturer in Latin American Studies and ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
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Series Studies of the Americas.
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1. Introduction
2. The Fallacy of the Telos of Transition
3. The Postwar Gray Zone of Politics
4. Neoliberalization and the Violence Within
5. War Reenactment through Elections
6. Memory Work in the Aftermath of War
7. The 2009 Shift
8. Conclusion
9. Epilogue.

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