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Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru

2013 University of Pennsylvania Press ;ISBN: 9780812244502 ;ISBN: 0812244508 ;ISBN: 0812206614 ;ISBN: 9780812206616 ;ISBN: 9780812223262 ;ISBN: 0812223268 ;EISBN: 0812206614 ;EISBN: 9780812206616 ;DOI: 10.9783/9780812206616 ;OCLC: 822017750 ;LCCallNum: HN350.A96T482 2013

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  • Title:
    Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
  • Author: Theidon, Kimberly
  • Subjects: Anthropology ; Ayacucho (Dept.) ; Ayacucho (Peru: Dept.) ; Conflict management ; Conflict resolution ; Human Rights ; Intimacy ; Mental health ; Peru ; Political regimes ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Political violence ; Politics and government ; Postwar reconstruction ; Psychological aspects ; Reconciliation ; Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence ; War victims
  • Description: In the aftermath of a civil war, former enemies are left living side by side-and often the enemy is a son-in-law, a godfather, an old schoolmate, or the community that lies just across the valley. Though the internal conflict in Peru at the end of the twentieth century was incited and organized by insurgent Senderistas, the violence and destruction were carried out not only by Peruvian armed forces but also by civilians. In the wake of war, any given Peruvian community may consist of ex-Senderistas, current sympathizers, widows, orphans, army veterans-a volatile social landscape. These survivors, though fully aware of the potential danger posed by their neighbors, must nonetheless endeavor to live and labor alongside their intimate enemies. Drawing on years of research with communities in the highlands of Ayacucho, Kimberly Theidon explores how Peruvians are rebuilding both individual lives and collective existence following twenty years of armed conflict.Intimate Enemiesrecounts the stories and dialogues of Peruvian peasants and Theidon's own experiences to encompass the broad and varied range of conciliatory practices: customary law before and after the war, the practice ofarrepentimiento(publicly confessing one's actions and requesting pardon from one's peers), a differentiation between forgiveness and reconciliation, and the importance of storytelling to make sense of the past and recreate moral order. The micropolitics of reconciliation in these communities present an example of postwar coexistence that deeply complicates the way we understand transitional justice, moral sensibilities, and social life in the aftermath of war. Any effort to understand postconflict reconstruction must be attuned to devastation as well as to human tenacity for life.
  • Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 488
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780812244502
    ISBN: 0812244508
    ISBN: 0812206614
    ISBN: 9780812206616
    ISBN: 9780812223262
    ISBN: 0812223268
    EISBN: 0812206614
    EISBN: 9780812206616
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812206616
    OCLC: 822017750
    LCCallNum: HN350.A96T482 2013
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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