Revolutionary Violence and the New Left
Leading figures and rising stars in the field present the first contribution explaining the transnational nature of the revolutionary violence of the New Left. Focusing on the processes of dissemination of ideologies and mobilization of ideas and repertoires of action among the revolutionary organizations of the New Left in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, this book contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of the New Left wave and, at the same time, helps explain the why of the emergence of very similar armed leftist groups in vastly different geographical and political contexts.
Alberto Martn lvarez is Full Professor and Researcher in Political Sociology at the Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. Jos Mara Luis Mora in Mexico and a full member of FLACSO-Spain. His research focuses on political violence, revolutionary movements, and the history of the left during the twentieth century.
Eduardo Rey Tristn is Professor and Researcher of Latin American History at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. His research has focused on the theme of political violence, revolutions, and guerrilla movements in Latin America during the twentieth century.
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Names: Martn lvarez, Alberto, editor. | Rey Tristn, Eduardo, editor.
Title: Revolutionary violence and the New Left : transnational perspectives /
edited by Alberto Martn lvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristn.
Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge
studies in Latin American politics ; 14 | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016008572| ISBN 9781138184411 (hbk) |
ISBN 9781315645223 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Political violenceHistory20th century. |
New leftHistory20th century. | InsurgencyHistory20th century.
Classification: LCC JC328.6 .R48 2016 | DDC 303.6/4dc23
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Alberto Martn lvarez holds a PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is currently a researcher at the Instituto Mora in Mexico City, and a full member of FLACSO-Spain. He has done extensive research on the origins and development of the Salvadorean revolutionary left. Among his main publications are: The genesis and internal dynamics of El Salvadors Peoples Revolutionary Army (ERP), 19701976, Journal of Latin American Studies , vol. 46 no. 4, pp. 663689 (with Eudald Cortina); Unity and disunity in the Frente Farabundo Mart para la Liberacin Nacional, Latin American Politics and Society , vol. 54, pp. 89112 (Michael Allison and Alberto Martn); From Revolutionary War to Democratic Revolution. The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) in El Salvador (Berlin, Berghof Conflict Research, 2010); La Izquierda Revolucionaria Latinoamericana (Mexico, Universidad de Colima, 2010).
Luca Falciola is Research Fellow in History of Political Institutions at the Catholic University of Milan. In 2011 he earned a PhD in History (Sciences Po Paris and Catholic University of Milan). In 20122013 he was Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University (Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence). In 2014 he was Postdoctoral visiting Fellow at Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. His research investigates the dynamics of contentious politics and political violence from an historical perspective. His main interests include the Movement of 1977 and the red terrorism in Italy, the US New Left, and the policing of protest in Western countries during the 1970s.
Daniel Kaiser is a Research Fellow for Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Daniel is member of a research group on International Dissidence and a research project on Transnational Escalation Mechanisms of Violent Dissidence. His publications include articles on the transnational cooperation of anti-colonial movements in southern Africa with a special emphasis on FRELIMO in Mozambique. His main research interests include resistance, political violence, social movements, postcolonial studies, lusophone Africa and Brazil.
