Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America: A Janus-Faced Paradigm? - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1498513859 ISBN 13: 9781498513852

Publisher: Lexington Books (UK), 2015

Synopsis

Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America presents a nuanced and evidence-based discussion of both the acceptance and co-optation of the transitional justice framework and its potential abuses in the context of the struggle to keep the memory of the past alive and hold perpetrators accountable within Latin America and beyond. The contributors argue that “transitional justice”—understood as both a conceptual framework shaping discourses and a set of political practices—is a Janus-faced paradigm. Historically it has not always advanced but often hindered attempts to achieve historical memory and seek truth and justice. This raises the vital question: what other theoretical frameworks can best capture legacies of human rights crimes? Providing a historical view of current developments in Latin America’s reckoning processes, Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America reflects on the meaning of the paradigm’s reception: what are the broader political and social consequences of supporting, appropriating, or rejecting the transitional justice paradigm?

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About the Author

Nina 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498513859
• ISBN 13: 9781498513852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214
• Editor: Nina Schneider, Marcia Esparza