Citizenship and political violence in Peru
Subtitle: an Andean town, 1870s to 1970s
By: Fiona Wilson
Series: Studies of the Americas
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781137309525
Subjects: Politics and government; Political violence; Citizenship
Description: "Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru" recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean were persistently overruled from the nineteenth century on, thereby perpetuating antagonism toward the Peruvian state and political centralism. The analysis points to the importance of two long-term processes. One reflected the memory of earlier municipal citizenship and the possibilities of political change; the other stemmed from the outlawing of political opposition which pushed radical dissent underground and into extremism, creating the conditions for the political violence in the 1980s. The book builds on the detailed study of a unique municipal archive in Tarma and ethnographic research from both before and after the violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.