Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
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Beyond Displacement
Campesinos, Refugees, and Collective Action in the Salvadoran Civil War
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: A People without History
- 1. Remapping the Tierra Olvidada
- 2. Organizing Flight: The Guinda System
- 3. Internationalizing La Guinda
- 4. The Politics of Exile
- 5. Salvadorans to the Soul: Citizen Refugees and La Lucha
- 6. (Re)Writing National History from Exile
- 7. ÂĄRetorno! The Grassroots Repopulation Movement
- Conclusion: Campesinos, Collective Organization, and Social Change
- Notes
- References
- Index