«Desaparición»: Argentina's Human Rights Trials

by Gabriele Andreozzi (Editor)

Overview

This book analyses the ideas of memory, truth and justice in the context of the trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina, from the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín to current developments under Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Judges, lawyers, historians, journalists and witnesses give a lucid and critical reconstruction of the last 30 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783034308571
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	04/16/2014
Series:	Hispanic Studies: Culture and Ideas , #53
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gabriele Andreozzi is a political scientist specializing in political systems and institutional change in Latin America. He has a particular interest in the political processes of democratic transition and the retrieval of memory in Argentina, as well as relations between Italy and Argentina. He has participated in international seminars on the subject of memory and disappearance and is the author of the Italian documentary ESMA, una sentencia italiana ('ESMA, an Italian judgment').

Table of Contents

Contents: Horacio Verbitsky: Argentinean Society Today: Between Memory and Forgetting – Marcos Novaro: The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina, from Alfonsín to Menem – Bruno Napoli: Memory, Truth and Justice: Ideas of an Institutional Justice – Chiara Forneris: The Narrative as a Formative Influence on the Norm: The Experimental Aspect of the Critical Interpretation of the Argentinean Past – Carlos Slepoy: Impunity and Justicia Universal (Universal Justice) in Relation to Crimes Against Humanity – Giancarlo Maniga: The Trials in Italy – Rodolfo Yanzon: The Trials from the End of the Dictatorship Until Today – Daniel Rafecas: The Reopening of Judicial Proceedings for Crimes Against Humanity in Argentina – Carlos Rozanski: Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide: Origins and Meaning of the Prohibitions – Ana Oberlin: The Process of Justice for the State Crimes Committed in Argentina During the Last Civil-Military Dictatorship. The View of a Lawyer Representing Victims and a Militant in HIJOS – Vera Vigevani: The Role of Testimony as a Tool for the Creation of a Political Project – Marina Franco: Gaps in Memory and Political Silences – Emilio Crenzel: The Memories of the Disappeared in Argentina – Hugo Vezzetti: The Uses of the Past and the Politics of the Present – Alejandro Kaufman: History and Memory: Some Theoretical Investigations for the Latin American Context.