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865109
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Montoya, Ainhoa
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Violence of democracy : : political life in postwar El Salvador /\ Ainhoa Montoya.
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| Publication Statement
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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, ©2018
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| Series Statement
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Studies of the Americas
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1 online resource (xvii, 303 pages) :: maps
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| ISBN
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331976330X
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: 9783319763309
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3319763296
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9783319763293
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Beyond the Gang Trope; The Multivalent Notion of Democracy; The Epistemological Value of Rumor; The Transition from War to Peace; Legacies of the Past; Neoliberalization; Locating Fieldwork; A Map of the Book; Part I: A Violent Democracy; Chapter 2: The Fallacy of the Telos of Transition; Remembering Wartime Violence; Postwar Scripts of Violence; Reaching Liberal Market Democracy; Chapter 3: The Postwar Gray Zone of Politics; From War to Seemingly Unintelligible Violence.
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A Critique of El Salvador's Model TransitionManufacturing Legitimacy; The Panacea of Democracy; Concluding Remarks; Chapter 9: Epilogue; The FMLN Takeover; Post-2009 Memory Work; Fleeing from Violence; Reckoning with El Salvador's Violent Democracy; Glossary; References; Index.
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Patronage Democracy and Internecine Factional ConflictThe FMLN Takeover Nonetheless; Part II: Toward Substantive Democracy; Chapter 6: Memory Work in the Aftermath of War; Muted Remembrance; The Religious Roots of Memory Work; The Committee; The Reconfiguration and Resignification of Time and Space; A New Moral Universe Rooted in the Past; Chapter 7: The 2009 Shift; The Turn of the Offended; The Persistence of Economic and Public Insecurity; An Uncaring State; Engaging the State; Fundamental Tensions in the Relationship to the State; An Ephemeral Space of Hope; Chapter 8: Conclusion.
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The 2009 Election as a Catalyst of ChangeGangs Enter the Picture; The Not-So-Visible; The Postwar Gray Zone; Postwar Lawlessness; Chapter 4: Neoliberalization and the Violence Within; Extortion Rackets in Postwar El Salvador; Securitization Strategies; The Affinities Between Extortion Rackets and Private Security Firms; The State as Racketeer; Security as a Privilege; Chapter 5: War Reenactment Through Elections; In the Absence of a Public Discussion; Postwar Elections as War; The Politics of Fear and Memory: The Wartime Divide Updated; What Change?; Building a Middle.
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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 ethnographic research, The Violence of Democracy argues that war legacies and the country's neoliberalization have enabled an intricate entanglement of violence and political life in postwar El Salvador. This volume explores various manifestations of this entanglement: the clandestine connections between violent entrepreneurs and political actors; the blurring of the licit and illicit through the consolidation of economies of violence; and the reenactment of latent wartime conflicts and political cleavages during postwar electoral seasons. The author also discusses the potential for grassroots memory work and a political party shift to foster hopeful visions of the future and, ultimately, to transform the country's violent democracy. Ainhoa Montoya is Lecturer in Latin American Studies and ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.--
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Democracy-- El Salvador.
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Violence-- Political aspects-- El Salvador.
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Democracy.
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HISTORY-- Latin America-- Central America.
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Politics and government.
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Violence-- Political aspects.
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El Salvador, History, 1992-
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El Salvador, Politics and government, 1992-
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El Salvador.
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| Dewey Classification
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972.8405/4
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F1488.5.M664 2018eb
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