Gatti Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay

Identity and Meaning
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-39415-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gatti, G.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gabriel Gatti is Profesor Titular de Universidad at the University of the Basque Country, Spain.