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Title Legacies of state violence and transitional justice in Latin America : a Janus-faced paradigm? / edited by Nina Schneider and Marcia Esparza
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 186 pages)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Argentina -- 1 "What Do You Mean By Transitional Justice?" -- Part II: Brazil -- 2 Scopes and Limits to the Transitional Justice Discourse in Brazil -- 3 Transitional Justice from the Margins -- Part III: El Salvador -- 4 Toward Reconsidering the Root Causes of Violence -- Part IV: Peru -- 5 First Empowerment, Then Disillusion -- 6 How Transitional Is Justice? -- Part V: Uruguay -- 7 Uruguay and the Reconceptualization of Transitional Justice -- Part VI: Latin America -- 8 Concluding Reflections -- Useful Online Resources -- Index -- About the Contributors
Summary Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America deconstructs the myth of unanimous support for the transitional justice paradigm across Latin America and conceptualizes transitional justice as a Janus-faced paradigm, as historically it has often hindered rather than advanced the quest for memory, truth, and justice. Based on local empirical evidence and including valuable voices from the Latin American Global South, this edited collection contradicts dominant assumptions in the much-cited international transitional justice literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-170) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Transitional justice -- Latin America
Violence (Law) -- Latin America
Crimes against humanity -- Latin America
Political violence -- Latin America
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
Crimes against humanity
Political violence
Transitional justice
Violence (Law)
Staatsgewalt
Politischer Wandel
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Schneider, Nina, 1980- editor.
Esparza, Marcia, editor
LC no. 2021677780
ISBN 9781498513869
1498513867