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Struggle for the Past: How We Construct Social Memories [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 236 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm
  • Sari: Worlds of Memory
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Mar-2021
  • Kirjastus: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 1789207827
  • ISBN-13: 9781789207828
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 236 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm
  • Sari: Worlds of Memory
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Mar-2021
  • Kirjastus: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 1789207827
  • ISBN-13: 9781789207828
Teised raamatud teemal:
"In all societies--but especially those that have endured political violence--the past is shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around Argentine "memory wars" since the 1970s, '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 in Argentina, it also gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field and critically reflects on the author's intellectual and humanitarian projects during this period"--

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.

List of Illustrations
viii
Introduction 1(14)
Chapter 1 Perspectives on the Past: Conflictive and Never-Ending
15(22)
Chapter 2 Building a Research Field: Memory and Gender in Latin American Social Sciences
37(18)
Chapter 3 Explorations, Certainties, and Uncertainties: The Human Rights Movement and Building Democracy in Argentina
55(48)
Chapter 4 Markers of Memory: Dates, Places, Archives
103(34)
Chapter 5 Victims, Relatives, or Citizens? Whose Voices Are Legitimate Enough?
137(18)
Chapter 6 Sexual Abuse as a Crime against Humanity and the Right to Privacy
155(16)
Chapter 7 Taking the Floor: Testimonial Voices over Time
171(15)
Chapter 8 Memory--for What? Toward a More Democratic Future
186(17)
References 203(14)
Index 217
Elizabeth Jelin is a Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET) and the Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES) in Buenos Aires. A foundational figure in the development of Memory Studies as a discipline, she is the author of numerous books, of which several have been translated into English.