Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America: A Janus-Faced Paradigm?

Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America: A Janus-Faced Paradigm?
ISBN-10
1498513867
ISBN-13
9781498513869
Category
History
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2015-10-22
Publisher
Lexington Books
Authors
Marcia Esparza, Global South Study Center, University of Cologne

Description

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.

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