Transitional Justice in Latin America
Title | Transitional Justice in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Elin Skaar |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2016-10-27 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317526201 |
This book addresses current developments in transitional justice in Latin America – effectively the first region to undergo concentrated transitional justice experiences in modern times. Using a comparative approach, it examines trajectories in truth, justice, reparations, and amnesties in countries emerging from periods of massive violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The book examines the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, developing and applying a common analytical framework to provide a systematic, qualitative and comparative analysis of their transitional justice experiences. More specifically, the book investigates to what extent there has been a shift from impunity towards accountability for past human rights violations in Latin America. Using ‘thick’, but structured, narratives – which allow patterns to emerge, rather than being imposed – the book assesses how the quality, timing and sequencing of transitional justice mechanisms, along with the context in which they appear, have mattered for the nature and impact of transitional justice processes in the region. Offering a new approach to assessing transitional justice, and challenging many assumptions in the established literature, this book will be of enormous benefit to scholars and others working in this area.
The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America
Title | The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 75 |
Release | 2020-02-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781108799089 |
How has Latin America pioneered the field of transitional justice (TJ)? Do approaches vary across the region? This Element describes Latin American innovations in trials and truth commissions, and evaluates two influential models that explain variation in TJ outcomes: the Huntingtonian and Justice Cascade approaches. It argues that scholars should complement these approaches with one that recognizes the importance of state capacity building and institutional change. To translate domestic/international political pressure and human rights norms into outcomes, states must develop 'TJ capabilities'. Not only should states be willing to pursue these highly complex policies, they must also develop competent bureaucracies.
The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America
Title | The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-01-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108876412 |
How has Latin America pioneered the field of transitional justice (TJ)? Do approaches vary across the region? This Element describes Latin American innovations in trials and truth commissions, and evaluates two influential models that explain variation in TJ outcomes: the Huntingtonian and Justice Cascade approaches. It argues that scholars should complement these approaches with one that recognizes the importance of state capacity building and institutional change. To translate domestic/international political pressure and human rights norms into outcomes, states must develop 'TJ capabilities'. Not only should states be willing to pursue these highly complex policies, they must also develop competent bureaucracies.
Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America
Title | Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Global South Study Center (GSSC), University of Cologne |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2015-10-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1498513867 |
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?
Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America
Title | Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Frances Carmody |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2018-04-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3319783939 |
In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional—it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation. Contextualizing cultural and political shifts in Argentina after the 1976 military coup with comparisons to other countries in the Southern Cone, Michelle Frances Carmody argues that incorporating human rights practices into official policy became a way for state actors to both build the authority of the state and manage social conflict, a key aim of post-Cold War democracies. By examining the relationship between transitional justice and the Latin American political order, this book illuminates overlooked dimensions of state formation in the age of human rights.
The Struggle for Memory in Latin America
Title | The Struggle for Memory in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Eugenia Allier-Montaño |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 260 |
Release | 2016-01-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 113752734X |
This book examines the struggles that unfolded in Latin America over the memory of the pasts of political violence experienced by the countries of the continent in the second half of the twentieth century: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America
Title | State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Gabriela Fried Amilivia |
Publisher | Cambria Press |
Total Pages | 244 |
Release | 2016-01-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 162196714X |
This book examines the intergenerational transmission of traumatic memories of the dictatorship in the aftermath of the two first decades since the Uruguayan dictatorship of 1973-1984 in the broader context of public policies of denial and institutionalized impunity. Transitional justice studies have tended to focus on countries like Argentina or Chile in the Southern Cone of Latin America. However, not much research has been conducted on the "silent" cases of transitions as a result of negotiated pacts. The literature on memory trauma and impunity has much to offer to studies of transition and post-authoritarianism. This book situates the human and cultural experience of state terrorism from the perspective of the experiences of Uruguayan families, through an in-depth ethnographic, cultural, psycho-social, and political interdisciplinary study. It will be a valuable resource to students, scholars, and practitioners who are interested in substantive questions of memory, democratization, and transitional justice, set in Uruguay's scenario, as well as to human rights policy-makers, advocates and educators and social and political scientists, cultural analysts, politicians, social psychologists, psychotherapists, and activists. It will also appeal to the general public who are interested in the problem of how to transmit the stories and meaning of traumatic experiences as a result of gross human rights violations, the cultural and generational effects of state terror, and the politics of impunity. This book is essential for collections in Latin American studies, political science, and sociology.