State Repression and the Struggles for Memory |
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Page xiv
... fact, at the level of state institutions, the first half of the 1990s was a low point in actions and initiatives related to human rights vio- lations during dictatorship in South America. It seemed as if a kind of equilibrium between ...
... fact, at the level of state institutions, the first half of the 1990s was a low point in actions and initiatives related to human rights vio- lations during dictatorship in South America. It seemed as if a kind of equilibrium between ...
Page xv
... fact, such is the nature of memory itself. The reader will have to travel through a winding path that touches on the core issues related to memories, with many side trails and detours. Furthermore, the goal is not to offer a definitive ...
... fact, such is the nature of memory itself. The reader will have to travel through a winding path that touches on the core issues related to memories, with many side trails and detours. Furthermore, the goal is not to offer a definitive ...
Page xvi
... fact, democratization processes that follow military dictator- ships are neither simple nor easy. Once formal democratic mechanisms are instituted, the challenge becomes how best to develop and deepen them. Confrontations inevitably ...
... fact, democratization processes that follow military dictator- ships are neither simple nor easy. Once formal democratic mechanisms are instituted, the challenge becomes how best to develop and deepen them. Confrontations inevitably ...
Page xvii
... fact, under changed circumstances and faced with new actors, the meaning of the past is inevitably transformed. Even actors keeping the same banners have to assign new meanings to the past that they want to “preserve.”2 In every case ...
... fact, under changed circumstances and faced with new actors, the meaning of the past is inevitably transformed. Even actors keeping the same banners have to assign new meanings to the past that they want to “preserve.”2 In every case ...
Page xviii
... fact must be established . In any given moment and place , it is impossible to find one memory , or a single vision and interpreta- tion of the past shared throughout society . There may be moments or historical periods when a consensus ...
... fact must be established . In any given moment and place , it is impossible to find one memory , or a single vision and interpreta- tion of the past shared throughout society . There may be moments or historical periods when a consensus ...
Contents
1 | |
2 What Memories Are We Talking About? | 8 |
3 Political Struggles for Memory | 26 |
4 History and Social Memory | 46 |
5 Trauma Testimony and Truth | 60 |
6 Engendered Memories | 76 |
7 Transmissions Legacies Lessons | 89 |
Conclusion | 103 |
A Chronology of Political Violence and Human Rights Movements | 107 |
Notes | 135 |
Works Cited | 149 |
Index | 157 |
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State Repression and the Labors of Memory Elizabeth Jelin,Judy Rein,Marcial Godoy-Anativia No preview available - 2003 |
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