Beyond Displacement

Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War

von Molly Todd

306 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

During the civil war that wracked El Salvador from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the Salvadoran military tried to stamp out dissidence and insurgency through an aggressive campaign of crop-burning, kidnapping, rape, killing, torture, and gruesome bodily mutilations. Even as human rights violations drew world attention, repression and war displaced more than a quarter of El Salvador's population, both inside the country and beyond its borders. Beyond Displacement examines how the peasant campesinos of war-torn northern El Salvador responded to violence by taking to the hills. Molly Todd demonstrates that their flight was not hasty and chaotic, but was a deliberate strategy that grew out of a longer history of collective organization, mobilization, and self-defense.

• ISBN: 9780299250041
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2006
• Größe: 226 x 150 mm
• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press