Overview
- Provides insight into the nature of the processes of political violence experienced by Latin America in the second half of the twentieth century
- Enables a continent-wide historicization of the struggles over the memory of these pasts
- Offers a continental perspective of struggles over memory in the political processes that marked the lives of the countries of Latin America
Part of the book series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice (MPTJ)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction
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Dictatorships and Authoritarian Regimes
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Wars and Authoritarian Regimes
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Writings on Recent History
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About the authors
Eugenia Allier-Montaño is full-time Researcher at the Institute for Social Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She obtained her PhD in History at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France. She is the author of Batallas de la memoria. Los usos políticos del pasado reciente en Uruguay (2010).
Emilio Crenzel is full-time Researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina, Professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Researcher at the Gino Germani Research Institute, Argentina. He is author of Memory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of Nunca Más (2011).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Struggle for Memory in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Recent History and Political Violence
Editors: Eugenia Allier-Montaño, Emilio Crenzel
Series Title: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137527349
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Intern. Relations & Development Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51448-6Published: 04 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52734-9Published: 12 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-3840
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 260
Topics: Latin American Politics, Political History, Latin American Culture, Political Science, Crime and Society, Social Structure, Social Inequality