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Bandits, Peasants, and Politics: The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia: LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series

Autor Gonzalo Sánchez, Donny Meertens Traducere de Alan Hynds
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2001
The years 1945-1965 saw heavy partisan conflict in the rural areas of Colombia, with at least 200,000 people killed. This virtual civil war began as a sectarian conflict between the Liberal and Conservative parties, with rural workers (campesinos) constituting the majority of combatants and casualties. Yet La Violencia resists classification as a social uprising, since calls for social reform were largely absent during this phase of the struggle. In fact, once the elite leadership settled on a power-sharing agreement in 1958, the conflict appeared to subside.
This book focuses on the second phase (1958-1965) of the struggle, in which the social dimensions of the conflict emerged in a uniquely Colombian form: the campesinos, shaped by the earlier violence, became social and political bandits, no longer acting exclusively for powerful men above them but more in defense of the peasantry. In comparing them with other regional expressions of bandolerismo, the authors weigh the limited prospects for the evolution of Colombian banditry into full-scale social revolution.
Published originally in 1983 as Bandoleros, gamonales y campesinos and now updated with a new epilogue, this book makes a timely contribution to the discourse on social banditry and the Colombian violencia. Its importance rests in the insights it provides not only on the period in question but also on Colombia's present situation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292777576
ISBN-10: 0292777574
Pagini: 247
Ilustrații: 20 photographs, 5 maps, 4 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:Univ of Texas P
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series


Notă biografică

Gonzalo Sánchez, recipient of the LASA/OXFAM Martin Diskin Memorial Lectureship Award for 2000, is Professor of History and Political Science at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Donny Meertens is a Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, currently on leave from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, where she is Professor of Gender and Development Studies. Alan Hynds is a professional translator in Mérida, Yucatán.

Cuprins

  • Foreword by Eric J. Hobsbawm
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Bandits and Society
  • 2. La Violencia: Context for Political Banditry in Colombia
  • 3. Regional and Sociopolitical Diversity of Banditry 1: Transitions
  • 4. Regional and Sociopolitical Diversity of Banditry 2: Extremes
  • 5. The National Dimension: Political Debates
  • 6. The Fall of the Bandolero Empire
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
  • References
  • Index

Descriere

A study of social banditry in Colombia during a near-civil war.