Beyond Displacement: Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War

ISBN-13: 9780299250041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 306 str.

Molly Todd

Opis

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.

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Introduction: A People Without History   Chapter 1. Remapping La Tierra Olvidada I. Introduction. Lost Peoples, Forgotten Lands II. The Map Reconfigured: The North as a Space of Opportunity III. El Salvador's North and La Lucha Foundations Formalization and Expansion Radicalization IV. Conclusion. Flames of Revolution   Chapter 2. Organizing Flight: The Guinda System I. Introduction. Unspeakable Acts II. Civil War, State-Sponsored Violence, and Gente Consciente III. Mobile Communities and Self-Defense: Origins of the Guinda System IV. Formalization of the Guinda System V. Refuge Points and Alliances VI. Conclusion. From Reaction to Resistance: Combative Mass Movement   Chapter 3. Internationalizing La Guinda I. Introduction. A Thin Black Line? II. Discovering Honduras III. Integrating Honduras into the Guinda System IV. Organizing Exile Defining the Community Managing the Basics Managing the Moral Boundaries of Community V. Conclusion   Chapter 4. The Politics of Exile I. Introduction II. Allying with Los Internacionales III. The Politcs of Refugee Aid IV. Maneuvering the System Utilizing Fissures Staging for Success V. Conclusion   Chapter 5. Citizen Refugees and La Lucha I. Introduction. Documenting the Present II. The Patria Stained Red III. Salvadorans to the Soul IV. Contributions from Exile V. Conclusion   Chapter 6. (Re)Writing National History from Exile I. Introduction. Declining Aid in the Name of te Nation II. To Educate is to Transform III.The Political Implications of Popular Education IV. Documenting Tradition Refugees as the Heirs of Farabundo Marti and the Martyrs of 1932 The 1969 (B)Order Wars Tracing Patterns Beyond the Nation V. Conclusion   Chapter 7. The Grassroots Repopulation Movement I. Introduction. Going Home II. Repopulation as Resistance III. Preparing the Conditions Phase One: Operation Underground Phase Two: Going Public IV. From Negotiation to Direct Action V. Conclusion. Contested Sove   Conclusion. Body Politics