Ralph Sprenkels

After Insurgency (eBook, ePUB)

Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador

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Produktbeschreibung

El Salvador's 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén became the country's second FMLN president. After Insurgency focuses on the development of El Salvador's FMLN from armed insurgency to a competitive political party. At the end of the war in 1992, the historical ties between insurgent veterans enabled the FMLN to reconvert into a relatively effective electoral machine. However, these same ties also fueled factional dispute and clientelism. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Ralph Sprenkels examines El Salvador's revolutionary movement as a social field, developing an innovative theoretical and methodological approach to the study of insurgent movements in general and their aftermath in particular, while weaving in the personal stories of former revolutionaries with a larger historical study of the civil war and of the transformation process of wartime forces into postwar political contenders. This allows Sprenkels to shed new light on insurgency's persistent legacies, both for those involved as well as for Salvadoran politics at large. In documenting the shift from armed struggle to electoral politics, the book adds to ongoing debates about contemporary Latin America politics, the "pink tide," and post-neoliberal electoralism. It also charts new avenues in the study of insurgency and its aftermath.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780268103286
• Artikelnr.: 50101004

Autorenporträt

Ralph Sprenkels is lecturer in conflict studies at Utrecht University. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including Stories Never to Be Forgotten: Eyewitness Accounts from the Salvadoran Civil War.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Captions
Acronyms
Protagonists
1. Introduction: echoes of revolution
Part 1. Drawing out insurgent relations
2. El Salvador's insurgency: a relational account
3. Interlude: with the FPL in Chalatenango, 1992-1995
4. Post-insurgent reconversion
Part 2. Ethnographies of post-insurgency
5. Inside Chalatenango's former 'People's Republic'
7. FMLN veterans' politics
6. Postwar life trajectories of former guerrilla fighters
8. Salvadoran politics and the enduring legacies of insurgency
References