Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay

Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9781137394156
ISBN-13 : 1137394153
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay by : G. Gatti

Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international law has constructed to mark, judge, understand, and repair the horror.

Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay

Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1137394145
ISBN-13 : 9781137394149
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay by : G. Gatti

Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international law has constructed to mark, judge, understand, and repair the horror.

Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay

Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay
Author :
Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 335
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781137394156
ISBN-13 : 1137394153
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay by : G. Gatti

Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international law has constructed to mark, judge, understand, and repair the horror.

Unwanted Witnesses

Unwanted Witnesses
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9780822987130
ISBN-13 : 0822987139
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Unwanted Witnesses by : Gabriela Polit Dueñas

Gabriela Polit Dueñas analyzes the work of five narrative journalists from three countries. Marcela Turati, Daniela Rea, and Sandra Rodriguez from Mexico, Patricia Nieto from Colombia, and María Eugenia Ludueña from Argentina produce compelling literary works, but also work under dangerous, intense conditions. What drives and shapes their stories are their affective responses to the events and people they cover. The book offers an insightful analysis of the emotional challenges, the stress and traumatic conditions journalists face when reporting on the region’s most pressing problems. It combines ethnographic observations of the journalists’ work, textual analysis, and a theoretical reflection on the ethical dilemmas journalists confront on a daily basis. Unwanted Witnesses puts forward a necessary discussion about the place contemporary journalists occupy in the field of production, and how the risks they run speak directly about the limits of our democracies.

Playful Memories

Playful Memories
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9783319409641
ISBN-13 : 3319409646
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Playful Memories by : Jordana Blejmar

This volume examines the blending of fact and fiction in a series of cultural artefacts by post-dictatorship writers and artists in Argentina, many of them children of disappeared or persecuted parents. Jordana Blejmar argues that these works, which emerged after the turn of the millennium, pay testament to a new cultural formation of memory characterised by the use of autofiction and playful aesthetics. She focuses on a range of practitioners, including Laura Alcoba, Lola Arias, Félix Bruzzone, Albertina Carri, María Giuffra, Victoria Grigera Dupuy, Mariana Eva Perez, Lucila Quieto, and Ernesto Semán, who look towards each other's works across boundaries of genre and register as part of the way they address the legacies of the 1976-1983 dictatorship. Approaching these works not as second-hand or adoptive memories but as memories in their own right, Blejmar invites us to recognise the subversive power of self-figuration, play and humour when dealing with trauma.

Space and the Memories of Violence

Space and the Memories of Violence
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 9781137380913
ISBN-13 : 1137380918
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Space and the Memories of Violence by : Estela Schindel

Authors from a variety of disciplines dealing with diverse historical cases engage with the spatial deployment of violence and the possibilities for memory and resistance in contexts of state sponsored violence, enforced disappearances and regimes of exception. Contributors include Aleida Assmann, Jay Winter and David Harvey.

Confronting Evil

Confronting Evil
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780199300716
ISBN-13 : 0199300712
Rating : 4/5 (16 Downloads)

Synopsis Confronting Evil by : James Waller

While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst headlines from ever being made. Despite the post-Holocaust consensus that "Never Again" would the world allow civilians to be victims of genocide, the reality is closer to "Again and Again." As many as 170 million civilians across the world were victims of genocide and mass atrocity in the 20th century. Now that we have entered the 21st century, little light has been brought to that darkness as civilians still find themselves under brutal attack in South Sudan, Burma, Syria, the Central African Republic, Burundi, Iraq, and a score of other countries in the world beset by state fragility and extremist identity politics. Drawing on over two decades of primary research and scholarship from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, Confronting Evil: Engaging Our Responsibility to Prevent Genocide is grounded in the belief that preventing mass atrocity is an achievable goal, but only if we have the collective will to do so. This groundbreaking book from one of the foremost leaders in the field presents a fascinating continuum of research-informed strategies to prevent genocide from ever taking place; to prevent further atrocities once genocide is occurring; and to prevent future atrocities once a society has begun to rebuild after genocide. With remarkable insight, Dr. James Waller challenges each of us to accept our responsibilities as global citizens-in whichever role and place we find ourselves-and to think critically about one of the world's most pressing human rights issues in which there are no sidelines, only sides.

An Anthropology of Disappearance

An Anthropology of Disappearance
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9781805390732
ISBN-13 : 1805390732
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis An Anthropology of Disappearance by : Laura Huttunen

All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts. It takes an anthropological perspective on questions about human life and death, absence and presence, rituals and mourning, liminality and structures, citizenship and personhood as well as agency and power. The chapters explore the political dimension of disappearances and address methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of researching disappearances and the disappeared. The combination of disappearance through political violence, crime, voluntary disappearance and migration make this book a unique combination.

Narrating Human Rights in Africa

Narrating Human Rights in Africa
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9780429514623
ISBN-13 : 042951462X
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis Narrating Human Rights in Africa by : Eleni Coundouriotis

Narrating Human Rights in Africa claims human rights from the perspective of artists from the African continent and situates the key theoretical concepts in African perspectives, undercutting the stereotypes of victimhood and voicelessness. Instead of positioning literary texts as illustrative of points already theorized elsewhere, the author foregrounds the literature itself to show the concepts it offers, the ideas and responses stemming from complex historical circumstances in Africa and expressed by African writers. The book focuses on how narrative creates new categories of thought challenging human rights dogma, whereas the sum of the literary voices evoked also stands by the values of social justice and protection of human rights. The chapters take up key challenges to the narration of human rights in which the contribution of African writers is particularly important. This includes human dignity in the resistance to apartheid, the figure of the child soldier, how humanitarianism’s images affect representational strategies of contemporary African writers, the challenge of testifying about rape in war, how to evoke the disappeared body of the torture victim, the centrality of flight in the refugee and migrant experiences, and finally the long shadow of the "heart of darkness" motif. Offering a sustained examination of the narrative treatment of key human rights concerns as expressed by African writers, this book will be of interest to scholars of African literature, postcolonial studies, African studies, and human rights.

Unbearable Life

Unbearable Life
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780231550284
ISBN-13 : 0231550286
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Unbearable Life by : Arthur Bradley

In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen’s existence be removed from the city as if they had never existed in the first place. Once reserved for individuals, damnatio memoriae in different forms now extends to social classes, racial and ethnic groups, and even entire peoples. In modern times, the condemned go by different names—“enemies of the people;” the “missing,” the “disappeared,” “ghost” detainees in “black sites”—but they are subject to the same fate of political erasure. Arthur Bradley explores the power to render life unlived from ancient Rome through the War on Terror. He argues that sovereignty is the power to decide what counts as being alive and what does not: to make life “unbearable,” unrecognized as having lived or died. In readings of Augustine, Shakespeare, Hobbes, Robespierre, Schmitt, and Benjamin, Bradley asks: What is the “life” of this unbearable life? How does it change and endure across sovereign time and space, from empires to republics, from kings to presidents? To what extent can it be resisted or lived otherwise? A profoundly interdisciplinary and ambitious work, Unbearable Life rethinks sovereignty, biopolitics, and political theology to find the radical potential of a life that neither lives or dies.