The Violence of Democracy Political Life in Postwar El Salvador /

• Main Author: Montoya, Ainhoa (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Ethnology.; Democracy.; Peace.; Violence.; Crime.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Latin American Politics.; Social Anthropology.; Conflict Studies.; Violence and Crime.; Terrorism and Political Violence.

This book offers novel insights about the ability of a democracy to accommodate violence. In El Salvador, the end of war has brought about a violent peace, one in which various forms of violence have become incorporated into Salvadorans' imaginaries and enactments of democracy. Based on ethnogr...