1st Edition

The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances The Political History of Nunca Mas

By Emilio Crenzel Copyright 2011
196 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the production, public circulation, and the interpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca Más report issued by Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP). It was established in 1983 by constitutional president Raúl Alfonsín to investigate the fate of thousands of people who had been disappeared... Read more

Introduction  1. Disappearance, Memory and Knowledge  2. Investigating the Past: CONADEP and the Making of Nunca Más  2. The Nunca Más Report  4. Uses and Resignifications of Nunca Más  Conclusions

Biography

Emilio Crenzel is Researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET) and Professor of Sociology (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina). He has authored papers about transitional justice, human rights, and social memories of the political violence and dictatorship in Argentina. He has also published in journals in Europe, Canada, Israel, Brazil, United States and Mexico.

"The production and effects of the Argentine Nunca Más report, well-known events in recent Latin American history, have been hardly analyzed with such thoroughness. Crenzel brings politics back to our understanding of human rights and showing the array of actors and ideas involved in the crafting and later interpretation of this landmark in the history of global human rights movements. In addition, he masters the cultural and sociological implications of these processes." – Vania Markarian, Columbia University