UC Davis Latin American History Workshop

UC Davis Latin American History Workshop

Event Date

Location
4217 SSH
Renzo Aroni, PhD Candidate at the University of California Davis, will present a chapter from his dissertation “From Resistance to Counter Rebellion: Making an Intercommunal Peasant Alliance against Shining Path in Peru."

Abstract:

The present paper focuses on the peasant resistance and rebellion against the Shining Path guerrilla group by organizing a multi-communal alliance agreement and building an alternative social order in wartime violence in the Andean region of Ayacucho, the epicenter of its armed struggle (1980-1992).It specifically looks at the micro-history of violence and resistance to explain how and why from the early 1980s to 1992 indigenous peasants switched support from insurgency to counterinsurgency and organized a large multi communal alliance against Shining Path in the Ayacucho region.

Contact Name
Manoel Rendeiro Neto