
Beyond Displacement |
Subtitle:
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
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Book Category:
History > Latin America > General
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Author:
Todd, Molly
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ISBN 10:
978-0-299-25004-1
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ISBN 13:
0-299-25004-0
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Price:
USD 29.95
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Publication Year:
2010
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Publisher Info
University of Wisconsin Press. InquiryDuring 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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Book Review and Awards
"Beyond Displacement . . . is an ethnographic account of the turbulent El Salvador--Honduras border region in the latter part of the twentieth century so authentic and engaging that it should become a classic in the field of refugee studies."--Mark Bonta, Journal of Historical Geography