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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Fallacy of the Telos of Transition
• 3. The Postwar Gray Zone of Politics
• 4. Neoliberalization and the Violence Within
• 5. War Reenactment through Elections
• 6. Memory Work in the Aftermath of War
• 7. The 2009 Shift
• 8. Conclusion
• 9. Epilogue.