1. Defining the Exilic Condition; 2. Forceful Displacement, the Construction of Collective Identities and State Formation; 3. The Format of Exile; 4. Sites of Exile; 5. Widening Exclusion and the Four-Tiered Structure of Exile; 6. Exile Communities, Activism and Politics; 7. Presidents in Exile; 8. Is Return the End of Exile?
The Politics of Exile in Latin America provides a systematic analysis of exile as a mechanism of institutional exclusion and its historical development.
Mario Sznajder holds the Leon Blum Chair in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also Research Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Among his works are the books The Birth of Fascist Ideology (with Zeev Sternhell and Maia Asheri), Constructing Collective Identities and Shaping Public Spheres: Latin American Paths (co-edited with Luis Roniger), and The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay (with Luis Roniger). He has also published numerous articles on fascism, democracy, and human rights. Luis Roniger is Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies and Politics at Wake Forest University. Roniger's publications include books such as Patrons, Clients and Friends (with Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), Hierarchy and Trust in Modern Mexico and Brazil, The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone (with Mario Sznajder), The Collective and the Public in Latin America (co-edited with Tamar Herzog), Globality and Multiple Modernities (co-edited with Carlos Waisman), and Transnationalism in Central America.
'The Politics of Exile in Latin America offers a wide-ranging and
integrative comparative study of political translocation that has
taken place from the early nineteenth century during the period of
independence to the 1960s and 1970s when the continent was gripped
by a series of authoritarian dictatorships that forced millions
abroad. Sweeping in scope yet detailed in its examination of
different periods in the history of political exile, the authors
offer an original interpretation of the continuities and changes
that occurred as dissidents and outsiders were forced to leave
their countries. This comprehensive and qualitative study examines
Latin America, including Brazil, and the Caribbean as a whole and
offers historians, social scientists, and the interested reader the
most insightful and inclusive overview of this subject to date.'
James N. Green, Brown University
'The Sznajder–Roniger duo go from strength to strength. After their
definitive Legacy of Human Rights Violations in Latin America they
have now produced a work that lays the basis for a whole new area
of inquiry - the study of political exile. Painting a vast and even
enthralling canvas, they demonstrate with a wealth of detail,
arresting narrative, and statistical analysis that exile has been a
structural feature of Latin American politics ever since colonial
times and that, far from being a footnote in the lives of
politicians, it has been central to the evolution of political
ideas and to the building of political careers. A remarkable
achievement.' David Lehmann, Cambridge University
'This book shows how a familiar and commonplace image (the Latin
American president who flees as protestors surge into his palace)
can be converted from an anecdote into an empirically robust and
theoretically well-grounded social-scientific general principle. In
place of broad assertions about the 'political culture' of an
entire subcontinent, it provides a sharply focused and historically
informed analysis of one key regularity in the political behavior
of national leaders across this large and diverse region. Exile
politics offers an alternative to the gulag and to uncontrollable
civil conflict. This pattern is deeply rooted in Latin America but
almost entirely absent from the Anglophone world. It is recognized
and taken into account by the entire political community and
persists after democratization as well as under authoritarian rule.
Professors Sznadjer and Roniger have made a real breakthrough in
the study of comparative political behavior.' Lawrence Whitehead,
Nuffield College, Oxford
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