The struggle for memory in Latin America : recent history and political violence

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The struggle for memory in Latin America : recent history and political violence

edited by Eugenia Allier-Montaño and Emilio Crenzel

(Memory politics and transitional justice)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

1st ed

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Bibliography: p. [223]-248

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This book examines the struggles that unfolded in Latin America over the memory of the pasts of political violence experienced by the countries of the continent in the second half of the twentieth century: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.

Table of Contents

  • Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Introduction
  • Emilio Crenzel and Eugenia Allier Montano 2. Dictatorships and Authoritarian Regimes 3. Toward a History of the Memory of Political Violence and the Disappeared in Argentina
  • Emilio Crenzel 4. As an unhealed wound': Memory and Justice in Post-Dictatorship Uruguay
  • Eugenia Allier y Camilo Vicente 5. Memory Policies in Chile, 1973-2010
  • Claudio Barrientos 6. The Skirmish of Memories and Political Violence in Dictatorial Brazil
  • Samantha Quadrat (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) 7. The Legacy of Authoritarianism and the Construction of Historical Memory in Post-Stroessner Paraguay
  • Luis Roniger, Leonardo Senkman and Maria Antonia Sanchez 8. Wars and Authoritarian Regimes 9. The Truth Ten Years On: The CVR in Peru
  • Cynthia Milton 10. 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 11. The Limits of Peace in the Case of El Salvador: Memories in Conflict and Permanent Victims
  • Eduardo Rey Tristan, Alberto Martin and Jorge Juarez Avila 12. The Naturalization of War and Peace: The Dominant Discourses on Political Violence in Guatemala
  • Julieta Rostica 13. From Conspiracy to Struggle for Democracy: A Historicization of the Political Memories of Mexico's 1968
  • Eugenia Allier Montano 14. Writings on Recent History 15. It Is Not a Part of American History That We Are Proud of.' Declassification Projects in the United States (1993-2002)
  • Benedetta Calandra

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