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Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in a Post-Cold War World
The challenge for historians, as for individuals and nations, has been to make sense of the Cold War past without recourse to the obsolete frameworks of a dichotomous world. The editors of Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in the Post-Cold War World, Judith Keene and Elizabeth Rechniewski, have brought together contributions that address the diverse modes by which the Cold War is being assessed, with a major focus on countries on the periphery of the Cold War confrontation. These approaches include developments in historiography as new intellectual and cultural frame are applied to old debates. Authors also consider the ‘universal’ principles and moral discourses, including that of human rights, on which judgements have been based and judicial processes instigated; and the forms of memorialisation that have sought to come to terms, and perhaps achieve reconciliation, with a Cold War past. Contributors are: Ann Curthoys, Philip Deery, Katherine Hite, Michael Humphrey, Su-kyong Hwang, Perry Johansson, Judith Keene, Betty O'Neill, Peter Read, Elizabeth Rechniewski, Estela Valverde, Adrian Vickers and Marivic Wyndham
Another Aesthetics Is Possible
In Another Aesthetics Is Possible Jennifer Ponce de León examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending another social reality. Focusing on artists and art collectives in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States, Ponce de León shows how experimental practices in the visual, literary, and performing arts have been influenced by and articulated with leftist movements and popular uprisings that have repudiated neoliberal capitalism and its violence. Whether enacting solidarity with Zapatista communities through an alternate reality game or using surrealist street theater to amplify the more radical strands of Argentina's human rights movement, these artists fuse their praxis with forms of political mobilization from direct-action tactics to economic resistance. Advancing an innovative transnational and transdisciplinary framework of analysis, Ponce de León proposes a materialist understanding of art and politics that brings to the fore the power of aesthetics to both compose and make visible a world beyond capitalism.
The Struggle for the Past
In all societies—but especially those that have endured political violence—the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around the Argentine experience since the 1970s within the broader context of the Southern Cone and international developments, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization, it gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field of inquiry, lucidly recounting the author’s own intellectual and personal journey during these decades.
2010
Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author’s name and characteristic keywords in their title.
Argentina Betrayed
The ruthless military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country's people, presiding over massive disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process, destroying the state's trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked their lives to find the disappeared, and one group of mothers defied the repressive regime with weekly protests at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. How do societies cope with human losses and sociocultural traumas in the aftermath of such instances of political violence and state terror? In Argentina Betrayed, Antonius C. G. M. Robben demonstrates that the dynamics of trust and betrayal that convulsed ...
A Modern History of Forgotten Genocides and Mass Atrocities
This is the first textbook of its kind to amass cases of genocide and other mass atrocities across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries that have largely been pushed to the periphery of Genocide Studies or “forgotten” altogether. Divided into four thematic sections – Genocide and Imperialism; War and Genocide; State Repression, Military Dictatorships, and Genocide; and Human-Caused Famine, Attrition, and Genocide – A Modern History of Forgotten Genocides and Mass Atrocities covers five continents, including case studies from Biafra, Yemen, Argentina, Russia, China, and Bengal. They range from the French conquest of Algeria in the mid-nineteenth century to the Yazidi ...
Surviving State Terror
Honorable Mention, 2019 Distinguished Book Award, given by the Sex & Gender Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2019 Marysa Navarro Book Prize, given by the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) A profound reflection on state violence and women’s survival In the 1970s and early 80s, military and security forces in Argentina hunted down, tortured, imprisoned, and in many cases, murdered political activists, student organizers, labor unionists, leftist guerrillas, and other people branded “subversives.” This period was characterized by massive human rights violations, including forced disappearances committed in the name of national securi...
Las voces de la represión
Desde el regreso de la democracia a la Argentina, los responsables de la represión tomaron la palabra públicamente generando impactos, debates y polémicas. A pesar del silencio corporativo de los militares y de su ínfima o nula colaboración en la búsqueda de la verdad sobre los desaparecidos, a pesar de que muchas veces justificaron y negaron los crímenes cometidos, sus declaraciones constituyen un aspecto controversial pero no poco significativo de los procesos sociales a través de los cuales se ha elaborado el pasado de terrorismo de Estado en la Argentina. Estas declaraciones públicas de represores, sus condiciones de posibilidad, sus marcos de interpretación, sus escenarios de ...
Las migraciones como campo de batallas
El libro aborda cómo las organizaciones sociales de migrantes, las agencias estatales y las entidades supraestatales definen los intereses en torno de la migración, las vías legítimas para reclamar por recursos y reconocimientos y los criterios para determinar pertenencias y exclusiones. ¿Qué políticas y discursos construyen la migración como un tema o como un objeto?, ¿qué operaciones circunscriben a la movilidad de las personas en las ciencias y en las políticas públicas? Migración interna / migración internacional; migración económica ¿versus? refugio político, migración voluntaria e involuntaria, feminización de las migraciones, migración y desarrollo, migración de ...
Políticas y lugares de la memoria
Los modos singulares en que se anudan los dispositivos institucionales de gestión, las prácticas militantes y los saberes que participan en la hechura de las políticas y lugares de la memoria dan la tonalidad a la traza del libro. Atentos a la lógica de investigación del caso por caso, los escritos aquí reunidos indagan los diversos modos en que los estilos de gestión, las memorias militantes y los saberes –tanto expertos como no expertos– se traman en un trabajo político que interviene en la constitución de estrategias institucionales que, por una parte, escriben y re-escriben los lugares de la memoria y, por otra, proponen representaciones y discursos a través de los cuales l...
