Surviving forced disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay : identity and meaning
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Surviving forced disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay : identity and meaning
（Memory politics and transitional justice）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Detenido-desaparecido : narrativas posibles para una catástrofe de la identidad
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Revised and updated version of the author's El detenido-desaparecido : narrativas posibles para una catástrofe de la identidad, published in 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-190) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Sociology from the Gut 1. A Catastrophe for Identity and Meaning. Forced Disappearance, Modernity, and Civilization 2. Activists of Meaning. Bringing Order to Ruins, Remaking Bodies, Undoing Traumas... 3. Moral Techniques. Recovering Disappeared Identities through Forensic Anthropology 4. The Meaning-Preserving Machinery of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo 5. Art and Science Struggling with the Absence of Meaning 6. Noisy Silences. The Testimonial Work of the Former Detained-Disappeared 7. Serious Parodies. 'Children of' Inhabiting (More or Less Joyfully) the Absence 8. Transnationalization of the Detained-Disappeared, Social Creativity, and Other Unintended Consequences of Forced Disappearance
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