Politics after Violence : : Legacies of the Shining Path Conflict in Peru /

Politics after Violence : : Legacies of the Shining Path Conflict in Peru / / ed. by Alberto Vergara, Hillel Soifer.

Between 1980 and 1994, Peru endured a bloody internal armed conflict, with some 69,000 people killed in clashes involving two insurgent movements, state forces, and local armed groups. In 2003, a government-sponsored “Truth and Reconciliation Committee” reported that the conflict lasted longer, affe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Boesten, Jelke,
Cameron, Maxwell A.,
Chávez, Noelia,
Dargent, Eduardo,
Drinot, Paulo,
Encinas, Daniel,
Lerner, Adrián,
Levitsky, Steven,
Maldonado, Arturo,
Merolla, Jennifer L.,
Muñoz, Paula,
Paredes, Maritza,
Rénique, José Luis,
Schubiger, Livia Isabella,
Soifer, Hillel David,
Sulmont, David,
Vergara, Alberto,
Vieira, A.,
Zechmeister, Elizabeth J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Soifer, Hillel,
Vergara, Alberto,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2019
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Leaving the Path
  • 1. Shining Path: The Last Peasant War in the Andes
  • 2. Civil Wars and Their Consequences: The Peruvian Armed Conflict in Comparative Perspective
  • 3. From Oligarchic Domination to Neoliberal Governance: The Shining Path and the Transformation of Peru’s Constitutional Order
  • 4. The Internal Armed Conflict and State Capacity: Institutional Reforms and the Effective Exercise of Authority
  • 5. Impact and Legacies of Political Violence in Peru’s Public Universities
  • 6. Peace for Whom? Legacies of Gender-Based Violence in Peru
  • 7. Indigenous Activism and Human Rights NGOs in Peru: The Unexpected Consequences of Armed Conflict
  • 8. Political Violence and the Defeat of the Left
  • 9. From a Partisan Right to the Conservative Archipelago: Political Violence and the Transformation of the Right-Wing Spectrum in Contemporary Peru
  • 10. Public Opinion, the Specter of Violence, and Democracy in Contemporary Peru
  • 11. Contested Memories of the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Contributors
  • Index

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