Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru Silencing Civil Society

by Burt, Jo-Marie

• ISBN13: 9780230600386
• ISBN10: 0230600387
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book analyzes two of the most complex and enigmatic phenomena to emerge in Latin America in recent decades: the extremely violent Shining Path guerrilla movement, and the decade-long regime of political outsider turned dictator, Alberto Fujimori. The book describes the context in which these two authoritarian political projects flourished and their effects on Peruvian civil society and contemporary Peruvian democracy.

Author Biography

Jo-Marie Burt is Associate Professor of Government and Politics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She was a Fulbright Scholar and visiting researcher at the Catholic University of Peru in 2006, and she served as a research consultant for the Peruvian Truth and Justice Commission in 2002-2003. She is co-editor, with Philip Mauceri, of Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (2004).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Civil Society, Political Violence, and the Authoritarian State in Peru

State Formation and State Deformation

The Weak State

Social Consequences of State Breakdown

Terror versus Terror

TheCrisis of Organized Politics

Gray Zones and Guerrillas: Shining Path in Lima

The Iron Belts of Misery

In the Gray Zones: States of Shining Path

The Battle of Villa El Salvador

State Making Against Democracy

The Authoritarian Reconstitution of the State

'Quien habla es terrorista': The Politics of Fear

The Authoritarian State and the Resurgence of Civil Society

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