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Taking Back the Streets

Author : Temma Kaplan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520936874
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Taking Back the Streets written by Temma Kaplan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward the end of the twentieth century in places ranging from Latin America and the Caribbean to Europe, the United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Iran, Japan, China, and South Asia, women and young people took to the streets to fight injustices they believed they could not confront in any other way. In the hope of changing the way politics is done, they called officials to account for atrocities they had committed and unjust laws they had upheld. They attempted to drive authoritarian governments from power by publicizing the activities these officials tried to hide. This powerful book takes us into the midst of these movements to give us a close-up look at how a new generation bore witness to human rights violations, resisted the efforts of regimes to shame and silence young idealists, and created a vibrant public life that remains a vital part of ongoing struggles for democracy and justice today. Through personal interviews, newspaper accounts, family letters, and research in the archives of human rights groups, this book portrays women and young people from Argentina, Chile, and Spain as emblematic of others around the world in their public appeals for direct democracy. An activist herself, author Temma Kaplan gives readers a deep and immediate sense of the sacrifices and accomplishments, the suffering and the power of these uncommon common people. By showing that mobilizations, sometimes accompanied by shaming rituals, were more than episodic—more than ways for societies to protect themselves against government abuses and even state terrorism—her book envisions a creative political sphere, a fifth estate in which ordinary citizens can reorient the political practices of democracy in our time.

Gate Theatre Presents Tejas Verdes

Author : Fermin Cabal
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gate Theatre Presents Tejas Verdes written by Fermin Cabal and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tejas Verdes ("Green Gables"), once a seaside hotel, was an infamous Chilean torture and detention center during the early Pinochet years. One of the leading Spanish playwrights of his generation, Fermin Cabal's evocative play traces the life of a young woman who vanished one night in Santiago.

Determinants of Gross Human Rights Violations by State and State Sponsored Actors in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina

Author : Wolfgang S. Heinz
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789041112026
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Determinants of Gross Human Rights Violations by State and State Sponsored Actors in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina written by Wolfgang S. Heinz and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 1999-07-27 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the gross human rights violations that characterized the military repression in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay from the 1960s to the 1980s. Dr Wolfgang Heinz, the author of three of the four case studies is a German scholar. The second author, Dr Hugo Frühling, is a Chilean researcher. Both are renowned human rights specialists who have done in-depth research on the causes of gross human rights violations in these countries. They have interviewed generals and officers directly involved in the repression. They have unearthed secret documents and, building on existing scholarship, they have managed to draw a unique picture of the mechanisms of repressive domestic social control. They have investigated international factors as well as the dynamics of the interaction between guerrilleros and urban terrorists on the one hand, and the military, the police forces and the death squads on the other. The result is a comprehensive volume, broad and comparative in scope, and written with clinical detachment but also with humanitarian sympathy for the victims of repression.

Speculative Fictions

Author : Alessandro Fornazzari
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822978547
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Speculative Fictions written by Alessandro Fornazzari and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculative Fictions views the Chilean neoliberal transition as reflected in cultural production from the postdictatorship era of the 1970s to the present. To Alessandro Fornazzari, the move to market capitalism effectively blurred the lines between economics and aesthetics, perhaps nowhere more evidently than in Chile. Through exemplary works of film, literature, the visual arts, testimonials, and cultural theory, Fornazzari reveals the influence of economics over nearly every aspect of culture and society. Citing Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Willy Thayer, Milton Friedman, and others, Fornazzari forms the theoretical basis for his neoliberal transitional discourse as a logical progression of capitalism. Fornazzari identifies Casa de campo, Jose Donoso's allegory of the military coup of 1973 and the ensuing monetary crisis, as a harbinger of transitional texts, challenging them to explore new forms of abstraction. Those forms are explored in the novels Oir su voz by Arturo Fontaine and Mano de obra by Diamela Eltit, where Fornazzari examines divergent views of workers in the form of neoliberal human capital or post-Fordist immaterial labor. In documentaries by Patricio Guzman and Silvio Caiozzi, he juxtaposes depictions of mass mobilization and protest to the mass marketing of individual memory and loss, claiming they serve as symbols of the polarities of dictatorship and neoliberalism. Fornazzari then relates the subsuming of the individual under both fascism and neoliberalism by recalling the iconic imbunche (a mutilated figure whose orifices have been sewn closed) in works by Donoso and the visual artist Catalina Parra. He continues the theme of subsumption in his discussion of the obliteration of the divide between physical labor and intellectualism under neoliberalism, as evidenced in the detective novel A la sombra del dinero by Ram—n Diaz Eterovic. In these examples and others, Fornazzari presents a firmly grounded theoretical analysis that will appeal to Latin Americanists in general and to those interested in the intersection of economics and culture. The Chilean experience provides a case study that will also inform students and scholars of neoliberal transitions globally.

Some Write to the Future

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822312697
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Some Write to the Future written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies tricked-out to resemble short fiction. No index or literature references. Seven essays by Chilean novelist and social critic Dorfman, profile the work of other Latin American writers, including Asturias, Borges, and Marquez. This is the first English translation of the essays, which were written and published over a 20-year span. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Eruptions of Memory

Author : Nelly Richard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509532293
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Eruptions of Memory written by Nelly Richard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, one of Latin America’s foremost critical theorists examines the use and abuse of memory in the wake of the social and political trauma of Pinochet’s Chile. Focusing on the period 1990–2015, Nelly Richard denounces the politics and aesthetics of forgetting that have underpinned both the protracted transition out of dictatorship and the denial of justice to its survivors and victims. What are the perils and social costs of a culture of forgetting? What forms do memories of injustice take in newly formed democracies? How might a history of violence and an ethics of reparation be reconciled in post-autocratic societies? In addressing these and other questions, Richard exposes the abuses of the past and the present while also attending to the residues of memory that are manifested in street protests, literature, and the media, and in artistic practices from architecture and urban design to installation and film. While cultural artifacts can be powerful devices for resistance and critique, Richard argues that they can also be complicit in reproducing and collaborating with forms of institutional and political oblivion. Both within Chile and beyond, Richard offers a trenchant critique of how authoritarian regimes and neoliberal states whittle away at memory’s critical capacity. At a time of seismic political realignments in Latin America and internationally, Eruptions of Memory makes a powerful case for the ethical, political, and aesthetic value of memory.

Political (In)Justice

Author : Anthony W. Pereira
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822972832
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Political (In)Justice written by Anthony W. Pereira and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-10-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do attempts by authoritarian regimes to legalize their political repression differ so dramatically? Why do some dispense with the law altogether, while others scrupulously modify constitutions, pass new laws, and organize political trials? Political (In)Justice answers these questions by comparing the legal aspects of political repression in three recent military regimes: Brazil (1964-1985); Chile (1973-1990); and Argentina (1976-1983). By focusing on political trials as a reflection of each regime's overall approach to the law, Anthony Pereira argues that the practice of each regime can be explained by examining the long-term relationship between the judiciary and the military. Brazil was marked by a high degree of judicial-military integration and cooperation; Chile's military essentially usurped judicial authority; and in Argentina, the military negated the judiciary altogether. Pereira extends the judicial-military framework to other authoritarian regimes—Salazar's Portugal, Hitler's Germany, and Franco's Spain—and a democracy (the United States), to illuminate historical and contemporary aspects of state coercion and the rule of law.

Where Memory Dwells

Author : Macarena Gomez-Barris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520255836
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Where Memory Dwells written by Macarena Gomez-Barris and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where Memory Dwells is a crucial contribution to the current debate on political violence. Macarena Gómez-Barris has researched exhaustively on the Chilean post-dictatorship to find the deep relationship between what happened in Chile on September 11, 1973 and what is going on today, in Chile and in the world."—Sergio Villalobos-Ruminott, University of Arkansas "This book offers intriguing insights on the symbolic, aesthetic, and personal aspects of memory-making by activists, survivors, and artists during the afterlife of the Pinochet dictatorship. The author shows how specific cultural actors wrestle creatively with the dilemma of how to represent experiences of atrocity that defy our ability to know, narrate, and depict them, yet prove crucial to the building of a democratic culture."—Steve Stern, Alberto Flores Galindo Professor, University of Wisconsin "Macarena Gomez-Barris takes the reader on an often personal journey through the 'memoryscape of terror' of the Chilean dictatorship in Chile and Chilean culture in exile. This book makes a poignant and compelling contribution to the study of traumatic memory in Latin America."—Marita Sturken, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication studies, New York University "Where Memory Dwells offers an immensely luminous rearticulation of the 1990s 'politics of memory' theme for the twenty-first century. Illustrating the profound relevance of memory studies to political theory, Gómez-Barris shows with great lucidity how the remembering and forgetting of state terror are entwined with global and local forces of the neoliberal economy, nationalism, and universal human rights discourse. Where Memory Dwells exemplifies the best efforts of a sociological approach to memory as cultural mediation of power. It should be read by anyone interested in the critical work that collective memory may perform for our societies in transition.”—Lisa Yoneyama, Author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory "Where Memory Dwells is a creatively researched and exquisitely thoughtful study of the memory of state terror as it lives and hides in complex and politically activated cultural practices. Gómez-Barris's exploration of how authoritarianism and social injustice are remembered, forgotten, and redressed by nations, citizens, and exiles is a beautiful achievement, one with an immediate relevance for us today."—Avery F. Gordon, author of Ghostly Matters

Remembering Pinochet's Chile

Author : Steve J. Stern
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822338161
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Pinochet's Chile written by Steve J. Stern and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By sharing individual Chileans' recollections of the Pinochet regime, historian Steve J. Stern provides an analytic framework for understanding memory struggles in history.

Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions

Author : Anita Ferrara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317804651
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Truth Commissions written by Anita Ferrara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1990, after the end of the Pinochet regime, the newly-elected democratic government of Chile established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate and report on some of the worst human rights violations committed under the seventeen-year military dictatorship. The Chilean TRC was one of the first truth commissions established in the world. This book examines whether and how the work of the Chilean TRC contributed to the transition to democracy in Chile and to subsequent developments in accountability and transformation in that country. The book takes a long term view on the Chilean TRC asking to what extent and how the truth commission contributed to the development of the transitional justice measures that ensued, and how the relationship with those subsequent developments was established over time.It argues that, contrary to the views and expectations of those who considered that the Chilean TRC was of limited success, that the Chilean TRC has, in fact, over the longer term, played a key role as an enabler of justice and a means by which ethical and institutional transformation has occurred within Chile. With the benefit of this historical perspective, the book concludes that the impact of truth commissions in general needs to be carefully reviewed in light of the Chilean experience. This book will be of great interest and use to students and scholars of conflict resolution, criminal international law, and comparative legal systems in Latin America.

Tejas Verdes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)

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A Risk Taker's Journey

Author : Manuel A Donoso
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1460253779
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book A Risk Taker's Journey written by Manuel A Donoso and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of five, Manuel Donoso rode a wooden horse and pretended he was a cowboy. Two years later, he saddled a real horse and became a real "cowboy." As a teenager, he found himself conscripted into the Chilean Army. While there, he experienced many abuses of power. The witnessing of the crushing of an aspiring young soldier's military dreams was the final straw. This drove him to persuade the country's president, Eduardo Frei Montalva, to arrange for his discharge. Not satisfied with being a dreamer in Chile's Central Valley, he travelled from the Southern to the Northern Hemisphere. Journeying through the Amazon, he marveled at the exotic creatures, was intrigued at the mysterious colours of the Amazon River, yet was horrified by the brutality of man he experienced along the way. While penniless in Central America, yet wanting to get to the United States, he became a dreamer again. He and a group of young friends put together a crazy form of transportation that worked, just not the way they expected. Eventually, he made it to Canada the easy way-by plane. In his new home he met the girl of his dreams. She was so nice, he actually married her twice! Then he wrote his entire improbable story in a book and called it "A Risk Taker's Journey." What a life! What a story! You've got to read it.

Refugee and Humanitarian Problems in Chile

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Refugee and Humanitarian Problems in Chile written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Problems Connected with Refugees and Escapees and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature

Author : Verity Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135960267
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature written by Verity Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.

Human Rights in Chile

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Chile written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star

Author : I. López-Calvo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137492961
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star written by I. López-Calvo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Bolaño has attained an almost mythical stature and is often considered the most influential Latin American writer of his generation. The first English-language volume of essays on the Chilean author, Roberto Bolaño, a Less Distant Star: Critical Essays, includes ten critical essays of his oeuvre. With a special emphasis on his masterpieces: 2666, The Savage Detectives, By Night in Chile, and Distant Star, the essays address topics such as Borges's influence and the role of repetition, social memory, allegory, and neoliberalism.

Notorious Prisons of the World

Author : Stephen Wade
Publisher : Wharncliffe
ISBN 13 : 1473822416
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Notorious Prisons of the World written by Stephen Wade and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating history of doing time throughout the centuries: from England’s medieval dungeons to America’s supermax detention facilities. The first prisons were castle hellholes, places of neglect, oblivion, and slow death. Every civilization has had its dissenters, deviants, and political offenders, and so prisons became essential to the retention of power. As the centuries passed, and prisons were needed for other reprobates—such as debtors and common thieves—legal systems across the world began to cater to a growing variety of prisoners, and the business of incarceration began. Notorious Prisons of the World traces this development, from the state prisons of Athens and Rome, to the birth of the houses of correction and the penitentiary. Stephen Wade tells fascinating stories of the infamous penal colonies and state prisons across the stage of world history, from Alcatraz and Devil’s Island to the fortress of Colditz, and from the Siberian gulags to the massive super jails sprouting across modern America. He also shares the stories of inmates and staff, political regimes, and the rise and fall of empires, all seen through the prison walls. In doing so, Wade throws light on the state-structured punishments which have stripped away individual freedoms. Sometimes with a degree of humanitarian concern, and sometimes through sheer barbarism.