Landscapes of struggle
Subtitle: politics, society, and community in El Salvador
By: edited by Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford
Contributors: Lauria-Santiago, Aldo; Binford, Leigh, 1948-
Series: Pitt Latin American series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: El Salvador -- History -- 20th century; El Salvador -- History, Local; El Salvador -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Description: During the 1980s, El Salvador's violent civil war captured the world's attention. In the years since, the country has undergone dramatic changes. Landscapes of Struggle offers a broad, interdisciplinary assessment of El Salvador from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on the ways local politics have shaped the development of the nation. Proceeding chronologically, these essays-by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists-explore the political, social, and cultural dynamics governing the Salvadoran experience, including the crucial roles of land, the military, and ethnicity; the effects of the civil war; and recent transformations, such as the growth of a large Salvadoran diaspora in the United States. Taken together, they provide a fully realized portrait of El Salvador's troublesome past, transformative present, and uncertain future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-316) and index
Table of contents: title: Local history, politics, and the state in El Salvador / Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford; title: Section one: linking the local with the national; title: prewar Salvadoran history reconsidered. Land, community, and revolt in late nineteenth-century Indian Izalco / Aldo Lauria-Santiago; title: The formation of the urban middle sectors in El Salvador, 1910-1944 / Victor Hugo Acuña Ortega; title: Patronage and politics under General Maximiliano Martínez, 1931-1939 : the local roots of military authoritarianism in El Salvador / Erik Ching; title: Colonels and industrial workers in El Salvador, 1944-1972 : seeking societal support through gendered labor reforms / Kati Griffith and Leslie Gates; title: The formation of a rural community : Joya de Cerén, 1956-1995 / Carlos Benjamín Lara Martínez.; title: Section two: civil war and its aftermath : local politics and community. Peasants, catechists, revolutionaries : organic intellectuals in the Salvadoran revolution, 1980-1992 / Leigh Binford; title: Civil war and reconstruction : the repopulation of Tenancingo / Elisabeth J. Wood; title: Between clientelism and radical democracy : the case of Ciudad Segundo Montes / Vincent J. McElhinny; title: Not revolutionary enough? : community rebuilding in postwar Chalatenango / Irina Carlota Silber; title: The Salvadoran land struggle in the 1990s : cohesion, commitment, and corruption / Lisa Kowalchuck; title: Section three: culture and ideology in contemporary El Salvador. "This is not culture!" : the effects of ethnodiscourse and ethnopolitics in El Salvador / Henrik Ronsbo; title: "El Capitán Cinchazo" : blood and meaning in postwar San Salvador / Ellen Moodie; title: In the stream of money : contradictions of migration, remittances, and development in El Salvador / David Pedersen