Beyond displacement : campesinos, refugees, and collective action in the Salvadoran civil war / Molly Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Molly.

Series:

Critical human rights.

Critical human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--El Salvador.

Refugees.

El Salvador--History--Civil War, 1979-1992.

El Salvador.

Physical Description:

xviii, 286 p. : ill., map.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the civil war that wracked El Salvador from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, the Salvadoran military tried to stamp out dissidence and insurgency through an aggressive campaign of crop-burning, kidnapping, rape, killing, torture, and gruesome bodily mutilations. Even as human rights violations drew world attention, repression and war displaced more than a quarter of El Salvador's population, both inside the country and beyond its borders. Beyond Displacement examines how the peasant campesinos of war-torn northern El Salvador responded to violence by taking to the hills. Molly Todd demonstrates that their flight was not hasty and chaotic, but was a deliberate strategy that grew out of a longer history of collective organization, mobilization, and self-defense.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612765957

9781282765955

1282765957

9780299250034

0299250032

OCLC:

673403498