Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 THE PUZZLE OF INSURGENT COLLECTIVE ACTION
- 2 ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN THE SHADOW OF CIVIL WAR
- 3 REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF CLASS AND CITIZENSHIP
- 4 FROM POLITICAL MOBILIZATION TO ARMED INSURGENCY
- 5 THE POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DUAL SOVEREIGNTY
- 6 THE REEMERGENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
- 7 CAMPESINO ACCOUNTS OF INSURGENT PARTICIPATION
- 8 EXPLAINING INSURGENT COLLECTIVE ACTION
- Epilogue: Legacies of an Agrarian Insurgency
- Appendix: A Model of High-Risk Collective Action by Subordinate Social Actors
- Chronology of El Salvador's Civil War
- References
- Index
- Other Books in the Series
8 - EXPLAINING INSURGENT COLLECTIVE ACTION
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations and Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 THE PUZZLE OF INSURGENT COLLECTIVE ACTION
- 2 ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN THE SHADOW OF CIVIL WAR
- 3 REDRAWING THE BOUNDARIES OF CLASS AND CITIZENSHIP
- 4 FROM POLITICAL MOBILIZATION TO ARMED INSURGENCY
- 5 THE POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DUAL SOVEREIGNTY
- 6 THE REEMERGENCE OF CIVIL SOCIETY
- 7 CAMPESINO ACCOUNTS OF INSURGENT PARTICIPATION
- 8 EXPLAINING INSURGENT COLLECTIVE ACTION
- Epilogue: Legacies of an Agrarian Insurgency
- Appendix: A Model of High-Risk Collective Action by Subordinate Social Actors
- Chronology of El Salvador's Civil War
- References
- Index
- Other Books in the Series
Summary
On my first visit to the Cooperativa Candelaria un Nuevo Amanecer and the Cooperativa Montecristo, two groups of insurgent campesinos occupying properties high on the side of a war-ravaged volcano north of San Jorge (recall Figs. 3.5 and 3.6), I arrived a bit late at the meeting place, an isolated peasant home. I had reached there by driving about an hour up a dry river bed (whether it was the right river bed or not was not clear until the very end), a definite challenge for my small pickup truck. As arranged at a regional meeting of the Las Marías Land Defense Committee the previous week, I expected to meet with cooperative leaders to discuss the history of the difficult emergence of the cooperatives in the midst of the civil war. Rather than three or four people, I found over fifteen people gathered in the farmyard. Another seven soon arrived. The interview took four hours, as almost everyone, men and women alike, wanted to speak, to tell what had happened to a brother or sister, or to tell a story of the time they occupied some property.
At the end of the interview, I asked for the names of a few people for whom I could inquire when I returned to visit again, as I feared that I would not again succeed in finding the place.
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- Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador , pp. 226 - 256Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003