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OverviewFrom Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals explains how a group of Catholic lay catechists educated in liberation theology came to take up arms and participate on the side of the rebel FMLN during El Salvador's revolutionary war (1980-92). In the process they became transformed from popular intellectuals to insurgent intellectuals who put their organizational and cognitive skills at the service of a collective effort to create a more egalitarian and democratic society. The book highlights the key roles that peasant catechists in northern Morazan played in disseminating liberation theology before the war and supporting the FMLN during it-as quartermasters, political activists, and musicians, among other roles. Throughout, From Popular to Insurgent Intellectuals highlights the dialectical nature of relations between Catholic priests and urban revolutionaries, among others, in which the latter learned from the former and vice-versa. Peasant catechists proved capable at making independent decisions based on assessment of their needs and did not simply follow the dictates of those with superior authority, and played an important role for the duration of the twelve-year military conflict. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leigh BinfordPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9781978833692ISBN 10: 1978833695 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 09 December 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""By showing us the complex interplay between peasants, peasant catechists, liberationist priests and guerrilla commanders, Binford’s study will become the foundational reference point for questions on the origins of peasant revolutionary consciousness in El Salvador.""— Erik Ching, author of Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory, Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Research, Furman University ""By telling the life stories of peasant catechists in El Salvador, this remarkable historical ethnography by Leigh Binford situates the readers in the world of these important actors during the armed conflict of the 1980s. Binford’s work deepens our understanding of how the teachings of Liberation Theology had a unique impact on the process. This book is history from below at its best."" — Hector Lindo-Fuentes, coauthor of Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory" By showing us the complex interplay between peasants, peasant catechists, liberationist priests and guerrilla commanders, Binford's study will become the foundational reference point for questions on the origins of peasant revolutionary consciousness in El Salvador. --Erik Ching author of Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory, Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Research, Furman University By telling the life stories of peasant catechists in El Salvador, this remarkable historical ethnography by Leigh Binford situates the readers in the world of these important actors during the armed conflict of the 1980s. Binford's work deepens our understanding of how the teachings of Liberation Theology had a unique impact on the process. This book is history from below at its best. --Hector Lindo-Fuentes coauthor of Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory By showing us the complex interplay between peasants, peasant catechists, liberationist priests and guerrilla commanders, Binford's study will become the foundational reference point for questions on the origins of peasant revolutionary consciousness in El Salvador. --Erik Ching author of Stories of Civil War in El Salvador: A Battle over Memory, Walter Kenneth Mattison Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate Research, Furman University Author InformationLEIGH BINFORD is Professor Emeritus at the CUNY College of Staten Island and the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He is the co-author with Scott Cook of Obliging Need: Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism, and is the author of The El Mozote Massacre: Human Rights and Global Implications, and Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest: Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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