The Politics of Violence: Gender, Conflict and Community in El Salvador

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9226-2

Paperback

212 pages

September 2009, Wiley-Blackwell

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Develops an inter-disciplinary feminist perspective grounded in original ethnographic research on everyday forms of violence in El Salvador
Unites a critical analysis of theories of violence with original ethnographic research on its use and broader responses to its different manifestations
Makes an important theoretical contribution to debates on violence, through developing in depth accounts of the violences of everyday life from a feminist perspective.
Examines the vocabularies of violence of those who live with it on an everyday basis, locating these vocabularies in a critical analysis of the relations of domination that have shaped Salvadoran history.
Challenges dominant theories of violence by foregrounding subaltern vocabularies that have been historically ignored in debates on violence