Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity: Commemoration and Contestation in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay

by Cara Levey

Overview

Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976-1983) and Uruguay (1973-1985). The emergence of these memorial sites is analysed in relationship to memory, truth seeking and justice in the long aftermath of dictatorship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034309875
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Series:	Cultural Memories , #3
Pages:	295
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cara Levey is Lecturer in Latin American Studies at University College Cork. She completed a PhD in Latin American Studies at the University of Leeds in 2010. Her research explores cultural memory and justice in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Contentious Presents, Unsettled Pasts – Memory Matters: Towards a Definition of the Commemorative Site – A Tale of Two Transitions: Shifting Impunity in the Long Aftermath of State Repression – Of Memorials and Victims: Liminal Sites of Homage in Buenos Aires and Montevideo – Returning to the Scene of the Crime(s): Transformative Trajectories of Sites of State Terrorism – Transitory Transmissions of Memory in Argentina and Uruguay: The Ebbs and Flows of the Escrache and its Recent Iterations – Conclusion: Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity: Fissures, Entrepreneurs and Sites in Dialogue.

Editorial Reviews

«Levey does a great job of setting out the study’s theoretical framework, engaging with very relevant and interesting debates in the field of memory studies.»
(Raquel da Silva, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 2018)

«Cara Levey’s book is a valuable contribution to politics of memory debates both within and beyond transitional justice policy frameworks. As a comparative politics scholar, Levey offers in-depth comparison of both a well-studied and a less well-studied case—Argentina and Uruguay—with suggestive indications for why the cases converge and diverge regarding key human rights policies and praxis.»
(Katherine Hite, Bulletin of Spanish Studies 6/2018)

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