The Fate of Peruvian Democracy : Political Violence, Human Rights, and the Legal Left Hardback
by Tamara Feinstein
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Tamara Feinstein investigates the bloody Shining Path conflict’s effect on the legal Left in late-twentieth-century Peru, illustrating the catastrophic impact state and insurgent violence can have on the growth and resilience of democratic political actors during times of war. In this engaging historical study, Tamara Feinstein chronicles the late-twentieth-century Shining Path conflict and argues that it significantly contributed to the rupture and disintegration of the noninsurgent legal Left in Peru by deepening preexisting divisions and eradicating an entire generation of leaders.
Using a combination of oral histories, archival documents, contemporary media accounts, and participant observation of commemorations, Feinstein maps the trajectory of the Peruvian Left’s rise and fall by analyzing two emblematic human rights cases that occurred at the Left’s zenith and nadir: the state-based violence of the 1986 Lima prison massacres and the 1992 Shining Path assassination of leftist shantytown leader MarÃa Elena Moyano.
The lessons found in The Fate of Peruvian Democracy reach beyond Peru to connect with other Latin American countries.
Peru’s story illustrates the difficulties of accumulating political force during times of violence, underscores how struggles for self-defense can complicate ideological stances on violence, and helps explain the unevenness of the resurgence of the Left (the so-called “pink tideâ€) in Latin America in the twenty-first century.
The book contributes to debates on memory and human rights in Peru and Latin America where divisions over how to remember the war retraced the fault lines of earlier debates over democracy and violence.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 2 Maps; 3 Tables, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication Date:22/09/2023
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- ISBN:9780268206222
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 2 Maps; 3 Tables, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white
- Publisher:University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication Date:22/09/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780268206222