Memory and transitional justice in Argentina and Uruguay : against impunity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lessa, Francesca.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ©2013
Description:	xvi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Memory politics and transitional justice Memory politics and transitional justice.
Subject:	Transitional justice -- Argentina. Transitional justice -- Uruguay. Collective memory -- Argentina. Collective memory -- Uruguay. Collective memory. Transitional justice. Argentina. Uruguay.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9118578

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ISBN:	9781137269386 (hardback) 1137269383 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-282) and index.
Summary:	"Existing memory studies literature has focused on commemorative sites and dates while transitional justice scholarship has primarily centered on truth commissions, trials, and reparations. This book explores the interaction between memory and transitional justice and develops a theoretical framework to bring these two fields of study together through the concept of critical junctures. Focusing on post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay, Francesca Lessa uses critical junctures to track and explain moments of change. She traces and analyzes across time the dynamic evolution of and shifts in transitional justice policies and the emergence and replacement of dominant memory narratives in the context of enduring struggles for justice and against impunity"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
About the Author and the Book Cover
Introduction
1. Theoretical Framework: Critical Junctures, Transitional Justice, and Memory Narratives
2. The Downward Spiral toward Dictatorship
3. Transitional Justice in Argentina (1983-2012): A Global Protagonist with Its Ups and Downs
4. Reconciliation versus Justice: Entwining Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina
5. Transitional Justice in Uruguay (1985-2012): Latecomer or Unique?
6. Pacification or Impunity? The Ley de Caducidad and the Interweaving of Memory and Transitional Justice in Uruguay
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Details of Interviewees
Appendix 2. Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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