Overview

Politics of Impunity investigates the failure of the anti-impunity agenda in Brazil, from the release of the truth commission report denouncing the crimes of the military regime (1964-1985) in 2014, to the election of the former-paratrooper and far-Right leader Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Connecting debates on critical military studies, transitional justice and memory studies, the book moves beyond the conditions of implementation of accountability measures. It examines the conditions of possibility of the global anti-impunity agenda: when, how and why the question of impunity came to dominate debates on large-scale political violence. Drawing lessons from the Brazilian case, the book provides a new reading of transitional justice, investigating alternative ways of understanding militarism in the absence of warfare. It reveals the ways in which narratives of accountability and the memory of militarism work to demarcate and restrict what counts as unacceptable violence, who counts as victims/perpetrators and what counts as reasonable forms of justice and resistance.

Full Product Details

9781474491501

Table of Contents

Reviews

Through rich empirical work, including interviews and examination of official documents, this innovative book excavates the assumptions that precondition the possibilities of justice in the Brazilian case, radically rethinking the very foundations of the idea of transitional justice itself. --Jessica Auchter, University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Author Information

Henrique Tavares Furtado, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the West of England.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available