1. Introduction -- 2. The Provincial Council in Action: 1870 to 1914 -- 3. Local Democracy and the Radical Challenge: 1870 to 1914 -- 4. Adolfo Vienrich, Tarma's Radical Intellectual: 1867 to 1908 -- 5. The Politics of Folklore: 1900 to 1930 -- 6. Indigenismo and the Second Radical Wave: 1910 to 1930 -- 7. The Promise of APRA: 1930 to 1950 -- 8. Teachers Defy the State: 1950 to 1980 -- 9. Citizenship in Retrospect
Summary
"Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru" recounts the hidden history of how local processes of citizen formation in an Andean were persistently overruled from the nineteenth century on, thereby perpetuating antagonism toward the Peruvian state and political centralism. The analysis points to the importance of two long-term processes. One reflected the memory of earlier municipal citizenship and the possibilities of political change; the other stemmed from the outlawing of political opposition which pushed radical dissent underground and into extremism, creating the conditions for the political violence in the 1980s. The book builds on the detailed study of a unique municipal archive in Tarma and ethnographic research from both before and after the violence
