Political Movements and Violence in Central America
2005
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This analysis of the confrontation between popular movements and repressive regimes in Central America, particularly in El Salvador and Guatemala, examines urban and rural groups as well as nonviolent social movements and revolutionary movements over three decades from 1960 on. It studies the impact of state violence on contentious political movements and defends the political process model for studying such movements.
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Charles D. Brockett
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Charles Brockett lives in Atlanta where he is co-founder of UniversalTable/Wising Up Press, whose mission is promoting an appreciation of difference, of "finding the we in them, the us in you." He has co-edited a number of its anthologies on a variety of contemporary issues, such as immigration and acculturation and pluralism in families. He recently retired from teaching political science, for many years at Sewanee: The University of the South and before that at what is now the University of Massachusetts at North Dartmouth. The author of two well-received books on Central America and numerous social science journal articles, he is a recipient of several Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities awards. His PhD is from UNC-Chapel Hill. He has travelled and lived widely throughout Latin America, for the longest periods in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina.
