"QUIEN HABLA ES TERRORISTA": The Political Use of Fear in Fujimori's Peru.
Scholarship on the decade-long rule of Alberto Fujimori emphasizes the surprising popularity and support for Fujimori's rule. This essay, which analyzes the politics of fear in Fujimori's Peru, suggests that this presents a partial view of the nature of Fujimori's authority. Drawing on a Gramscian c...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Research Review Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 32 - 63 |
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2006
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=22857372&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 22857372 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00238791 LAR jtl: Latin American Research Review issn: 00238791 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2006 vid: 41 iid: 3 pid: 15979 pub: Cambridge University Press artinfo: ui: 22857372 10.1353/lar.2006.0036 ppf: 32 ppct: 31 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.8MB tig: atl: "QUIEN HABLA ES TERRORISTA": The Political Use of Fear in Fujimori's Peru. aug: au: Burt, Jo-Marie affil: George Mason University su: Peruvian politics & government Fujimori, Alberto, 1934- Authoritarianism Duress (Law) Political violence Civil society sug: subj: Peruvian politics & government Fujimori, Alberto, 1934- Authoritarianism Duress (Law) Political violence Civil society ab: Scholarship on the decade-long rule of Alberto Fujimori emphasizes the surprising popularity and support for Fujimori's rule. This essay, which analyzes the politics of fear in Fujimori's Peru, suggests that this presents a partial view of the nature of Fujimori's authority. Drawing on a Gramscian conceptualization of power, it explains how coercion achieved a consensual fagade by manipulating fear and creating a semblance of order in a context of extreme individual and collective insecurity. It traces the roots of this insecurity in the economic crisis and political violence of the 1980s and 1990s, and explains how the Fujimori regime manipulated fear and insecurity to buttress its authoritarian rule. This essay also complements existing studies on Peruvian civil society, which point to economic factors, such as the economic crisis of the 1980s and neoliberal reforms, to explain civil society weakness. This paper explores the political factors that contributed to this process, particularly the deployment of state power to penetrate, control and intimidate civil society. La literatura acerca de la década de gobierno de Alberto Fujimori enfatiza la sorpresiva popularidad y amplio apoyo a su orden. Este ensayo, que analiza la política del miedo durante su régimen, sugiere que esta observación presenta una visión parcial de la naturaleza de la autoridad de Fujimori. En base a conceptualizaciones Gramscianas de poder, explica como la coerción adquirió un aspecto consensual a partir de la manipulación del miedo y la creación de un orden ficticio en un contexto de extrema inseguridad individual y colectiva. El ensayo halla las raices de esta inseguridad en la crisis económica y violencia política de los ochenta y noventa, y explica como el gobierno de Eujimori manipuló el miedo y la inseguridad para fomentar su orden autoritario. Asimismo, este ensayo complementa los estudios disponibles sobre la sociedad civil peruana, los cuales enfatizan factores económicos, como la crisis conómica de los ochenta y las reformas neoliberales, en la explicación del debilitamiento de la sociedad civil. Aquí en cambio se exploran los factores políticos que contribuyeron a este proceso, particularmente el uso del poder estatal en la penetración, control e intimidación de la sociedad civil. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Latin American Research Review is the property of Cambridge University Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Latin American Research Review holder: Cambridge University Press dt: @attributes: year: 2006 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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