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How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999 de Carlos Iván Degregori

How Difficult It Is to Be God: Shining Path’s Politics of War in Peru, 1980–1999: Critical Human Rights

Autor Carlos Iván Degregori Editat de Steve J. Stern Traducere de Nancy Appelbaum, Joanna Drzewieniecki, Héctor Flores, Eric Hershberg, Judy Rein, Kimberly Theidon

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 dec 2012

The revolutionary war launched by Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency, was the most violent upheaval in modern Peru’s history, claiming some 70,000 lives in the 1980s–1990s and drawing widespread international attention. Yet for many observers, Shining Path’s initial successes were a mystery. What explained its cult-like appeal, and what actually happened inside the Andean communities at war?
In How Difficult It Is to Be God, Carlos Iván Degregori—the world’s leading expert on Shining Path and the intellectual architect for Peru’s highly regarded Truth and Reconciliation Commission—elucidates the movement’s dynamics. An anthropologist who witnessed Shining Path’s recruitment of militants in the 1970s, Degregori grounds his findings in deep research and fieldwork. He explains not only the ideology and culture of revolution among the insurgents, but also their capacity to extend their influence to university youths, Indian communities, and competing social and political movements.
Making Degregori’s most important work available to English-language readers for the first time, this translation includes a new introduction by historian Steve J. Stern, who analyzes the author’s achievement, why it matters, and the debates it sparked. For anyone interested in Peru and Latin America’s age of “dirty war,” or in the comparative study of revolutions, Maoism, and human rights, this book will provide arresting new insights.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299289249
ISBN-10: 0299289249
Pagini: 274
Ilustrații: 2 maps, 12 figures
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Critical Human Rights

Recenzii

“A towering achievement, the result of more than three decades of research and reflection on the interrelated phenomena of violence, war, culture, politics, and human rights in Peru.”—Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon

“Without a doubt, Degregori is the key interpreter of the Shining Path movement. This book is his masterpiece.”—Charles Walker, University of California, Davis

Notă biografică

Carlos Iván Degregori (1945–2011) was a distinguished Peruvian anthropologist at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos and the Universidad Mayor de San Marcos as well as a major public intellectual. Steve J. Stern is the Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Beyond Orientalism in Twentieth-Century Peru: Carlos Iván Degregori and the Shining Path War

Steve J. Stern

Part One. The War That Surprised Us: Why Shining Path Happened

1 The Years We Lived in Danger: The Armed Conflict, 1980–1999

2 How Social Sciences Failed? On the Trail of Shining Path, an Elusive Object of Study

3 The Maturation of a Cosmocrat and the Construction of a Community of Discourse

4 Revolution by Handbook: The Expansion of Marxism-Leninism in the Social Sciences and the Origins of Shining Path

Part Two. Harvesting Storms: Why Shining Path Failed

5 Youth, Peasants, Violence: Ayacucho, 1980–83

6 Harvesting Storms: Peasant Rondas and the Defeat of Shining Path in Ayacucho

7 How Difficult It Is to Be God: Ideology and Political Violence in Shining Path

Epilogue. Open Wounds and Elusive Rights: Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Descriere

The revolutionary war launched by Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency, was the most violent upheaval in modern Peru’s history, claiming some 70,000 lives in the 1980s–1990s and drawing widespread international attention. Yet for many observers, Shining Path’s initial successes were a mystery. What explained its cult-like appeal, and what actually happened inside the Andean communities at war?
In How Difficult It Is to Be God, Carlos Iván Degregori—the world’s leading expert on Shining Path and the intellectual architect for Peru’s highly regarded Truth and Reconciliation Commission—elucidates the movement’s dynamics. An anthropologist who witnessed Shining Path’s recruitment of militants in the 1970s, Degregori grounds his findings in deep research and fieldwork. He explains not only the ideology and culture of revolution among the insurgents, but also their capacity to extend their influence to university youths, Indian communities, and competing social and political movements.
Making Degregori’s most important work available to English-language readers for the first time, this translation includes a new introduction by historian Steve J. Stern, who analyzes the author’s achievement, why it matters, and the debates it sparked. For anyone interested in Peru and Latin America’s age of “dirty war,” or in the comparative study of revolutions, Maoism, and human rights, this book will provide arresting new insights.