The Violence of Democracy : Political Life in Postwar El Salvador / by Ainhoa Montoya.

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The Violence of Democracy : Political Life in Postwar El Salvador / by Ainhoa Montoya.

9783319763309
331976330X
9783319763293
3319763296

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XVII, 303 pages 2 illustrations, 1 illustration in color.) : illustrations

10.1007/978-3-319-76330-9 doi
9783319763293

JL950-969

972.84054

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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