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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819343503321

Titolo

Legacies of state violence and transitional justice in Latin America : a Janus-faced paradigm? / / editors, Nina Schneider, Marcia Esparza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md. : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-1386-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 186 pages)

Disciplina

340/.115098

Soggetti

Transitional justice - Latin America

Violence (Law) - Latin America

Crimes against humanity - Latin America

Political violence - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Argentina; 1 "What Do You Mean By Transitional Justice?"; Part II: Brazil; 2 Scopes and Limits to the Transitional Justice Discourse in Brazil; 3 Transitional Justice from the Margins; Part III: El Salvador; 4 Toward Reconsidering the Root Causes of Violence; Part IV: Peru; 5 First Empowerment, Then Disillusion; 6 How Transitional Is Justice?; Part V: Uruguay; 7 Uruguay and the Reconceptualization of Transitional Justice; Part VI: Latin America; 8 Concluding Reflections; Useful Online Resources; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America deconstructs the myth of unanimous support for the transitional justice paradigm across Latin America and conceptualizes transitional justice as a Janus-faced paradigm, as historically it has often hindered rather than advanced the quest for memory, truth, and justice. Based on local empirical evidence and including valuable voices from the Latin American Global South, this edited collection contradicts dominant assumptions in the much-cited international transitional justice literature.