The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone - by Francesca Lessa & Vincent Druliolle (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

Review Quotes

"An important contribution to our knowledge of ongoing processes for memory, truth, and justice, this must read selection of works addresses common experiences of State Terrorism while highlighting the uniqueness of each situation. Offering interdisciplinary perspectives, and through theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded chapters, the authors convincingly demonstrate: the strong presence and persistence of this past and its current political significance; the heterogeneity of societies memories and the need to challenge dichotomies by recognizing diversity in the debates about what and how to remember; the multiple public and private spheres for memory transmission and [re]construction - including diasporic mnemonic communities." - Susana Kaiser, University of San Francisco and author of Postmemories of Terror: A New Generation Copes with the Legacy of the "Dirty War"

"This book reads as a fresh, creative set of analytical lenses into the rapidly growing memory studies field of Latin America's Southern Cone. The authors offer both well-regarded and original approaches. There is a nice mix of established and emerging scholars and the volume provides cutting edge empirical material on sites and voices of memory. The book will appeal to an ever-growing number of memory scholars." - Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science; Director of Latin American and Latino/a Studies, Vassar College; and author of Politics and the Art of Commemoration: Memorials to Struggle in Latin America and Spain

About the Author

VIKKI BELL Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. EMILIO CRENZEL Professor of Sociology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. GABRIELA FRIED AMILIVIA Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at California State University, USA. GIUSEPPE LANA Artistic director of the exhibitions gallery BOCS (Box Of Contemporary Space). MICHAEL J. LAZZARA Assoc. Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of California, USA ELIZABETH LIRA Psychologist and Director of the Center of Ethics at the Alberto Hurtado University in Santiago, Chile. VALENTINA SALVI Researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET) and the Research Institute 'Gino Germani' (University of Buenos Aires). ALEJANDRA SERPENTE Doctoral student at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. CECILIA SOSA Argentine sociologist who worked for five years as a cultural journalist for the national newspaper Página 12.