The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (Oxford Studies in Democratization) - Hardcover

Roniger, Luis; Sznajder, Mario

 
9780198296157: The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (Oxford Studies in Democratization)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198296150 ISBN 13: 9780198296157
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

RONIGER is a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University and Visiting Professor at Wake Forest University

SZNAJDER is a Senior Lecturer at the Hebrew University and Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Latin American Studies at Clare Hall, Cambridge University

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198296150
ISBN 13 
9780198296157
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
384