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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Global South Study Center (GSSC), University of Cologne , Marcia Esparza , Steve Dobransky , Rosario Figari LayusPublisher: Lexington Books Imprint: Lexington Books Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9781498513852ISBN 10: 1498513859 Pages: 214 Publication Date: 22 October 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Whose Transition? Whose Voices?: Latin American Responses to Transitional Justice, Nina Schneider and Marcia Esparza Part I. Argentina Chapter 1: “What Do You Mean by Transitional Justice?”: Local Perspectives on Human Rights Trials in Argentina, Rosario Figari Layús Part II. Brazil Chapter 2: The Scope and Limits of the Discourse on “Transitional Justice” in Brazil, Edson Teles and Renan H. Quinalha Chapter 3: Transitional Justice from the Margins: Legal Mobilization and Memory Politics in Brazil, Cecília MacDowell Santos Part III. El Salvador Chapter 4: Toward Reconsidering the Root Causes of Violence: Free Trade, Mining, and Transitional Justice in Central America, Steve Dobransky Part IV. Peru Chapter 5: First Empowerment, then Disillusion: The Ambivalent Legacy of the Transitional Justice Framework in Local Peru, Laura Tejero Tabernero Chapter 6: How Transitional is Justice?: Peru’s Post-Conflict Revisited, José Pablo Baraybar, Jesús Peña, and Percy Rojas Part V. Uruguay Chapter 7: Uruguay and the Reconceptualization of Transitional Justice, Debbie Sharnak Part VI. Latin America Chapter 8: Concluding Reflections, Roberto GargarellaReviewsLegacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America examines the cross-cutting temporalities and multiple frictions at play when various stakeholders debate how best to satisfy the claims to truth, memory, and justice amidst the legacies of violent and authoritarian regimes. This book raises important challenges to the existing transitional justice paradigm, amply demonstrating that social and economic rights are key components of victim-survivors' repertoire of justice. -- Kimberly Theidon, Fletcher School, Tufts University This volume engages critically with the paradigm of transitional justice (TJ) and its application in Latin America.... [T]his book represents a valuable contribution to an emerging literature that abandons triumphalist discourses concerning TJ and calls for a critical examination of the ideological foundations, results and shortcomings of this paradigm * Journal of Latin American Studies * This is an excellent collection that should be read by all students and practitioners of transitional justice. The case studies cut through much of the verbiage that has dominated debate by showing what happens and has happened to real people on the ground. * Hispanic American Historical Review * Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America examines the cross-cutting temporalities and multiple frictions at play when various stakeholders debate how best to satisfy the claims to truth, memory, and justice amidst the legacies of violent and authoritarian regimes. This book raises important challenges to the existing transitional justice paradigm, amply demonstrating that social and economic rights are key components of victim-survivors' repertoire of justice. -- Kimberly Theidon, Tufts University Author InformationNina Schneider is a visiting scholar at the National University of Brasília, a research fellow at the Global South Study Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne, and an associate fellow of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. Marcia Esparza is associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, founder and co-director of the Historical Memory Project (HMP), and visiting scholar of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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