Research Catalog

Title

Disappearances in the post-transition era in Latin America / edited by Karina Ansolabehere, Barbara A. Frey, and Leigh A. Payne.

Publication

• Oxford : For the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Additional Authors

• Ansolabehere, Karina
• Frey, Barbara A.
• Payne, Leigh A.

Description

xvii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Summary

"Latin America sits at the centre of the third wave of democratisation beginning in the early 1980s. It has advanced farther than any other region of the world in its accountability processes for past human rights violations perpetrated during authoritarian regimes and armed conflicts. Despite these human rights achievements, Latin America is known as the most violent global region. In the last two decades since the transitions, serious human rights violations, especially disappearances, have increased exponentially in several countries in the region. This volume seeks to understand these post-transition disappearances. It does so by examining four different countries and the dynamics that play out there. It considers a variety of voices and points of view: those expressing the experiences from the perspectives of victims and relatives; those of activists, advocates, and public officials seeking truth and justice; and those from scholars attempting to draw out the specificities in each case and the patterns across cases. The underlying objective behind the project to gain knowledge and to draw on deep commitment to change within the region is to overcome this tragedy. After reading this volume, readers will not only have an overview of the practice of disappearances in the region, but will also be able to gauge how, despite the differences, the social and political logics that make disappearances possible are similar. The disappearances of the past and those of present are not the same, and it would be a mistake to consider them that way, but the social practices that make them possible are similar. These practices are what we call the logics of disappearance."--

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 237

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 236.

Subject

• Since 1980
• Disappeared persons > Latin America
• Human rights > Latin America
• Democracy > Latin America
• Democracy
• Disappeared persons
• Human rights
• Politics and government
• Social conditions
• Latin America > Politics and government > 1980-
• Latin America > Social conditions > 1982-
• Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-7989

ISBN

• 9780197267226
• 019726722X

OCLC

1240772353

Title

Disappearances in the post-transition era in Latin America / edited by Karina Ansolabehere, Barbara A. Frey, and Leigh A. Payne.

Publisher

Oxford : For the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 237

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 236.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1980

Added Author

Ansolabehere, Karina, editor.

Frey, Barbara A., editor.

Payne, Leigh A., editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7989