Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in el Salvador

Name: Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in el Salvador
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ISBN: 9780521010504

ISBN-10: 0521010500

ISBN-13: 9780521010504

Edition: 2003

Authors: Elisabeth Jean Wood, Robert H. Bates, Ellen Comisso, Peter Lange, Joel Migdal

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Widespread support among rural people for the leftist insurgency during the civil war in El Salvador challenges conventional interpretations of collective action. Those who supplied tortillas, information, and other aid to guerillas took mortal risks and yet stood to gain no more than those who did not. Wood's rich tapestry of explanation is based on oral histories gathered from peasants who supported the insurgency and those who did not over a period of many years during and immediately following the war, and interviews with military commanders of both sides. Peasants supported the FMLN, Wood found, not for any material gain that was contingent on their participation, but rather for moral…

Book details

List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of illustrations and tables


Preface and acknowledgments


List of abbreviations



The puzzle of insurgent collective action



Ethnographic research in the shadow of civil war



Redrawing the boundaries of class and citizenship



From political mobilization to armed insurgency



The political foundations of dual sovereignty



The re-emergence of civil society



Campesino accounts of insurgent participation



Explaining insurgent collective action


Epilogue: legacies of an agrarian insurgency


Appendix: A model of high-risk collective action by subordinate social actors


Chronology of El Salvador's civil war


List of references