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Surviving forced disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay identity and meaning /

Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international law has constructed to mark, judge, understand, and repair the horror.

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Main Authors: Gatti, Gabriel.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Memory politics and transitional justice
Subjects:
Disappeared persons > Argentina.
Disappeared persons > Uruguay.
State-sponsored terrorism > Argentina.
State-sponsored terrorism > Uruguay.
Political persecution > Argentina.
Political persecution > Uruguay.
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Sociology > Uruguay. > Uruguay.
Human rights > Uruguay. > Uruguay.
Society.
Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137394156
Summary: Based on extensive fieldwork that began in Argentina, this book asks how detained and disappeared persons inhabit the categories that international law has constructed to mark, judge, understand, and repair the horror.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Originally published in: 2014.
Carrier Form: 216 p. : 3 diagrames.
ISBN: 9781137394156 :
1137394153 :
CLC: D778.35
Contents: Introduction: Sociology from the Gut 1. A Catastrophe for Identity and Meaning. Forced Disappearance, Modernity, and Civilization 2. Activists of Meaning. Bringing Order to Ruins, Remaking Bodies, Undoing Traumas... 3. Moral Techniques. Recovering Disappeared Identities through Forensic Anthropology 4. The Meaning-Preserving Machinery of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo 5. Art and Science Struggling with the Absence of Meaning 6. Noisy Silences. The Testimonial Work of the Former Detained-Disappeared 7. Serious Parodies. 'Children of' Inhabiting (More or Less Joyfully) the Absence 8. Transnationalization of the Detained-Disappeared, Social Creativity, and Other Unintended Consequences of Forced Disappearance.

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