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By Professor Sandy Smith-Nonini

Incorporating investigative journalism and drawing on interviews with contributors and leaders, Sandy Smith-Nonini examines the contested position of health and wellbeing and improvement in El Salvador over the past twenty years. Healing the physique Politic recounts the dramatic tale of radical well-being activism from its origins in liberation theology and guerrilla drugs through the third-world country's twelve-year civil battle, via improvement of a impressive "popular health and wellbeing system," administered via lay companies in a former warfare area managed via leftist rebels. This ethnography casts mild at the conflicts among the conservative Ministry of well-being and first healthiness advocates throughout the Nineties peace process--a time while the govt sought to dismantle the potent peasant-run rural method. It deals an extraordinary research of the White Marches of 2002û2003, whilst radicalized physicians rose to nationwide management in a profitable crusade opposed to privatization of the social safeguard well-being approach. Healing the physique Politic contributes to the effective integration of clinical and political anthropology by way of bringing the semiotics of health and wellbeing and the physique to endure on cultural understandings of struggle, the kingdom, and globalization.

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Cut down by firing squads. (Anderson 1971) Concerned about the peasant uprising, American navy officers in warships just off the Salvadoran coast offered military assistance to the government but were reassured by President Maximiliano Hernández Martínez that his troops had the situation in hand. S. ) Shortly after the cataclysm, new laws were passed requiring adults over the age of eighteen to carry personal identity cards that would thereafter be required for most interactions with the state (persons of means could pay a patriotic donation MANUFACTURING ILL-BEING 31 and escape the requirement) (McClintock 1985).

Many approaches to the study of social movements have been shaped by assumptions that collective action is rare, and that participation in mobilization runs counter to (presumably self-interested) human nature. , see Eckstein 2001) but tend to ignore the role of social knowledge and cultural agency that animates a movement. The poststructuralist focus, common in cultural studies and in many anthropological accounts since 1990, has tended to emphasize “identity” and the politics of difference over political economy (Laclau and Mouffe 1985; and Best and Kellner 1991).

The extent of the state violence far exceeded anything resembling a strategic military response to the guerrillas. Estimated at only a few hundred strong prior to 1980, the FMLN army grew steadily in part because of the repression; as options for public debate or protest were closed down by the police, many Salvadorans previously active in union or student groups took up arms and went underground as a last resort (Pearce 1986; and Wood 2003). In rural Chalatenango, many people who survived the scorched earth–type army sweeps of 1983–1985 told me it was safer for them to join the compas than to continue civilian life.

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