The Legacy of Human-rights Violations in the Southern Cone
Author : Luis Roniger
Publisher :
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 1998
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Author : Luis Roniger
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Page : 906 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 1998
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Author : Luis Roniger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191585246
The new democracies of the Southern Cone have publicly professed to reject and condemn the uses of the state power in various forms against citizens under military rule, thus dissociating themselves from their predecessors. And yet the experiences of military rule have become a grim legacy, raising major issues and dilemmas to the forefront of the public agenda. The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay analyses in a systematic and comparative way the struggles and debates, the institutional paths and crises that took place in these societies following redemocratization in the 1980s and 1990s, as they confronted the legacy of violations committed under previous authoritarian governments and as the democratic administrations tried to balance normative principles and political contingency. The book also traces how these trends affected the development of politics of oblivion and memory and the restructuring of collective identity and solidarity following redemocratization. Oxford Studies in Democratization is a series for scholars and students of comparative politics and related disciplines. 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.
Author : Luis Roniger
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Democratizat
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
6. Oblivion and memory in the redemocratized Southern cone
Author : Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0691192715
A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to doubts about human rights laws and institutions. Past and current trends indicate that in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how essential advances can be sustained for decades to come.
Author : Francesca Lessa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230118623
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.
Author : James T. Lawrence
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781590339343
The existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, and prevent humanitarian crises. These human rights include freedom from torture, freedom of expression, press freedom, women's rights, children's rights, and the protection of minorities. This book surveys the countries of the Americas and is augmented by a current bibliography and useful indexes by subject, title and author.
Author : Antonio Costa Pinto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 14,30 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317986423
In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the previous authoritarian regimes. New factors, like international environment, conditionality, party cleavages, memory cycles and commemorations or politics of apologies, do sometimes bring the past back into the political arena. This book addresses such themes by dealing with two dimensions of authoritarian legacies in Southern European democracies: repressive institutions and human rights abuses. The thrust of this book is that we should view transitional justice as part of a broader ‘politics of the past’: an ongoing process in which elites and society under democratic rule revise the meaning of the past in terms of what they hope to achieve in the present. This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.
Author : Thomas Cushman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134019084
The Handbook maps out the field of human rights for the humanities and social sciences. It provides a solid foundation for the reader who wants to learn the basic parameters of the field, but also to promote new thinking and frameworks for the future study of human rights in the twenty-first century.
Author : Francesca Lessa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137269391
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.
Author : Vania Markarian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1135499365
This book takes an innovative look at international relations. Focusing on the worldwide campaign against abuses by the right-wing authoritarian regime in Uruguay (1973-1984), it explores how norms and ideas interact with political interests, both global and domestic. It examines joint actions by differently-motivated actors such as the leftist activists who had to flee Uruguay in these years, the Organization of American States, The United Nations, Amnesty International, and the United States. It traces language and procedures for making their claims. The chief goal, however, is to peruse the specific reasons that led these actors to endorse the central core of liberal rights that gave foundation to this system. A close examination of the available documents shows that even as they joined efforts to protest abuses, they were still pursuing their individual agendas, which is often overlooked in the existing scholarship on human rights transnational activism. The book pays special attention to the Uruguayan exiles, analyzing why and how leftist activists and leaders adopted the human rights language, which had so far been used to attack communism in the context of the Cold War.