Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

Politics & Social Sciences

Lessa, Francesca

Druliolle, Vincent

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Stories of transnational terror and justice illuminate the past and present of South America’s struggles for human rights\nThrough the voices of survivors and witnesses, human rights activists, judicial actors, journalists, and historians, Francesca Lessa unravels the secrets of transnational repression masterminded by South American dictators between 1969 and 1981. Under Operation Condor, their violent and oppressive regimes kidnapped, tortured, and murdered hundreds of exiles, or forcibly returned them to the countries from which they had fled. South America became a zone of terror for those who were targeted, and of impunity for those who perpetuated the violence. Lessa shows how networks of justice seekers gradually materialized and effectively transcended national borders to achieve justice for the victims of these horrors. Based on extensive fieldwork, archival research, trial ethnography, and over one-hundred interviews, The Condor Trials explores South America’s past and present and sheds light on ongoing struggles for justice as its societies come to terms with the unparalleled atrocities of their not-so-distant pasts.

The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America

History

Americas

Yale University Press

Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity (Memory Politics and Transitional Justice)

This interdisciplinary study explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay and develops a theoretical framework for bringing these two fields of study together through the concept of critical junctures.

Amnesty in the Age of Human Rights Accountability

Payne, Leigh A.

Cambridge University Press

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

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