Fear at the Edge: State Terror and Resistance in Latin America

ISBN 10: 0520077040 / ISBN 13: 9780520077041

Published by University of California Press, 1992

Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Seller Inventory # S07E-01568

Synopsis:

Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The contributors, primarily Latin American scholars, examine the deep sense of insecurity and the complex social psychology of people who live in authoritarian regimes. There is discussion of Argentina, where the brutal repression of the 1976 coup almost completely smothered individuals who might once have opposed government practices, and Uruguay, where the government forced the population into neutrality and isolation and cast a silent pall on everyday life. Accounts of repression and resistance in Chile and Brazil are also vividly presented.

About the Author: Juan E. Corradi is Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of The Fitful Republic: Economy, Society, and Politics in Argentina (1985). Patricia Weiss Fagen works for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in El Salvador and is the author of Exiles and Citizens: Spanish Republicans in Mexico (1973). Manuel Antonio Garretón is a member of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Santiago, Chile.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Fear at the Edge: State Terror and ...
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included