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Reframing the Transitional Justice Paradigm

Women's Affective Memories in Post-Dictatorial Argentina

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Authors:
  1. Jill Stockwell

    1. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, Hill End, Australia

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  • Examines the role of individual emotions in forming collective memories in Argentina
  • Draws upon first-hand oral testimonies from Argentinian women
  • Synthesizes the existing body of literature to trace the traumatic historical events in Argentina
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series in Transitional Justice (SSTJ, volume 10)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jill Stockwell
    Pages 1-15

  3. Argentina 1969–1999

    • Jill Stockwell
    Pages 17-38

  4. Politics of Remembering: The Military Dictatorship and Its Aftermath

    • Jill Stockwell
    Pages 39-58

  5. Politics of Remembering: Armed Guerrilla Violence

    • Jill Stockwell
    Pages 59-73

  6. Deep Memory

    • Jill Stockwell
    Pages 75-97

  7. Social Forces Shaping Memory Transmission

    • Jill Stockwell
    Pages 99-123

  8. Haunting

    • Jill Stockwell
    Pages 125-147

  9. Considering Affect in Transitional Contexts

    • Jill Stockwell
    Pages 149-156

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 157-170
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About this book

This volume explores the evolving and complex memorial consequences of state-sponsored violence in post-dictatorial Argentina. Specifically, it looks at the power and significance of personal emotions and affects in shaping memorial culture. This volume contends that we need to look beyond political and ideological contestations to a deeper level of how memorial cultures are formed and sustained. It argues that we cannot account for the politics of memory in modern-day Argentina without acknowledging and exploring the role played by individual emotions and affects in generating and shaping collective emotions and affects. Drawing from direct testimony from Argentinian women who have experienced political and physical violence, the research in this volume aims at understanding how their memories may be a different source of insight into the deep animosities within and between Argentine memorial cultures.

In direct contrast to the nominally objective and universalist sensibility that traditionally has driven transitional justice endeavours, this volume examines how affective memories of trauma are a potentially disruptive power within the reconciliation paradigm—and thus affect should be taken into account when considering transitional justice. Accordingly, Cultures of Remembrance for Women in Post-Dictatorial Argentina is an excellent resource for those interested in human rights, transitional justice, clinical psychology and social work, and Latin American conflicts.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, Hill End, Australia

    Jill Stockwell

About the author

Jill Stockwell is a social researcher with expertise in the impact of conflict on individuals and societies. Her current research interests include memory studies, transitional justice studies, affect, trauma, testimony, and Latin American studies. She recently completed her PhD with the Institute of Social Research at the Swinburne University of Technology as part of the research team on the project, ‘Social Memory and Historical Justice: How Democratic Societies Remember and Forget the Victimisation of Minorities in the Past’.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reframing the Transitional Justice Paradigm

  • Book Subtitle: Women's Affective Memories in Post-Dictatorial Argentina

  • Authors: Jill Stockwell

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Transitional Justice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03853-7

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03852-0Published: 10 February 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38046-9Published: 27 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03853-7Published: 29 January 2014

  • Series ISSN: 2945-5413

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-5421

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 170

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Political Science

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