Research Catalog

Title

The struggle for memory in Latin America : recent history and political violence / edited by Eugenia Allier-Montaro and Emilio Crenzel.

Publication

• New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Allier, Eugenia
• Crenzel, Emilio A. (Emilio Ariel)

Description

viii, 260 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This multi-disciplinary volume analyzes struggles over the memory of past political violence in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Each chapter offers a comprehensive history of the political violence that occurred in the second half of the twentieth century, analyzing its links with 1) the international context of the cold war, 2) the particular forms of repression and authoritarianism that prevailed in the domestic setting, 3) the social inequalities that were reinforced, and 4) the political, economic, and cultural transformations that Latin American societies were undergoing at the time. Considering the different paths that Latin American countries have taken in their efforts to confront history, the chapters examine how relevant actors look back on past events and vie with one another to give these events meaning in the public sphere. For each country examined, contributors consider the initiatives of transnational, regional, and national actors, as well as factors including class, gender, ethnicity, and geographic location. Chapters give political- and social-historical perspectives and employ tools from a variety of disciplines, including memory studies, history, political science, sociology, and anthropology. "--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Memory politics and transitional justice

Uniform Title

Memory politics and transitional justice.

Subjects

• Latin America > History > 20th century
• Collective memory > Latin America
• Latin America > Politics and government > 20th century
• Political violence > Latin America > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Toward a history of the memory of political violence and the disappeared in Argentina / Emilio Crenzel -- "As an unhealed wound" : memory and justice in post-dictatorship Uruguay / Eugenia Allier-Montaño and Camilo Vicente Ovalle -- Memory policies in Chile, 1973-2010 / Claudio Javier Barrientos -- The skirmish of memories and political violence in dictatorial Brazil / Samantha Viz Quadrat -- The legacy of authoritarianism and the construction of historical memory in post-Stroessner Paraguay / Luis Roniger, Leonardo Senkman, and María Antonia Sánchez -- The truth ten years on : the CVR in Peru / Cynthia E. Milton -- "From Conspiracy to struggle for democracy : a historicization of the political memories of the Mexican '68" / Eugenia Allier-Montaño -- The commissions for the study of violence in Colombia : an analysis of the official devices and narratives of the past and present of violence / Jefferson Jaramillo Marín -- The limits of peace in the case of El Salvador : memories in conflict and permanent victims / Eduardo Rey Tristán, Alberto Martín Álvarez, and Jorge Judrez Ávila -- The naturalization of peace and war : the hegemonic discourses on the political violence in Guatemala / Julieta Rostica -- "It is not a part of American history that we are proud of." Declassification projects in the United States (1993-2002) / Benedetta Calandra.

Call Number

JFD 15-3858

ISBN

• 9781137514486
• 1137514485

LCCN

2014047570

OCLC

898924763

Title

The struggle for memory in Latin America : recent history and political violence / edited by Eugenia Allier-Montaro and Emilio Crenzel.

Publisher

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Copyright Date

©2015

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Memory politics and transitional justice

Memory politics and transitional justice.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Allier, Eugenia, editor.

Crenzel, Emilio A. (Emilio Ariel), editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 15-3858