In this Book
- Beyond Displacement: Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Critical Human Rights
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xviii
- 1. Remapping the Tierra Olvidada
- pp. 15-49
- 3. Internationalizing La Guinda
- pp. 82-111
- 4. The Politics of Exile
- pp. 112-137
- 6. (Re)Writing National History from Exile
- pp. 165-189
- References
- pp. 263-276
Additional Information
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2010