Overview
- 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)
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
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The Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, Hill End, Australia
Jill Stockwell
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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