Luis Roniger, Mario Sznajder

The Legacy of Human-Rights Violations in the Southern Cone

Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The series will concentrate on the comparative study of the democratization process that accompanied the decline and termination of the cold war. The geographical focus of the series will primarily be Latin America, the Caribbean, Southern and Eastern Europe, and relevant experiences in Africa and Asia.

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This book provides a systematic and comparative study of the way three countries in the Southern Cone of the Americas have confronted the legacy of past human rights violations. It examines their attempts to rebuild human rights through public accountability, compensation, educational policy, constitutional reform, and debates about national history and collective memory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780198296157
• ISBN-10: 0198296150
• Artikelnr.: 21902771

Autorenporträt

RONIGER is a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University and Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University SZNAJDER is a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University and Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Latin American Studies at Clare Hall, Cambridge University

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Repression and the Discourse of Human Rights Violations in the
Southern Cone
* Shaping the Public Sphere and the Legacy of Human Right Violations
* National Reconciliation and the Disruptive Potential of the Legacy of
Human Rights Violations
* Restructuring the Realm of Human Rights in the Southern Cone
* The Multiple Refraction of the Various Institutional Paths
* Memory and Oblivion in the Redemocratized Southern Cone
* The Transformation of Collective Identities in Argentina, Chile, and
Uruguay
* Conclusions