Surviving Forced Disappearance in Argentina and Uruguay [electronic resource] : Identity and Meaning /
Gatti, G.author.
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.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Sociology from the Gut; Chapter 1 A Catastrophe for Identity and Meaning: Forced Disappearance, Modernity, and Civilization; Chapter 2 Activists of Meaning: Bringing Order to Ruins, Remaking Archives, and Undoing Traumas; Chapter 3 Moral Techniques: Recovering Disappeared Identities through Forensic Anthropology; Chapter 4 The Meaning-Preserving Machinery of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo; Chapter 5 Art and Science Struggling with the Absence of Meaning
Chapter 6 Noisy Silences: The Testimonial Work of the Former Detained-DisappearedChapter 7 Serious Parodies: "Children of" Inhabiting (More or Less Joyfully) the Absence; Chapter 8 Transnationalization of the Detained-Disappeared, Social Creativity, and Other Unintended Consequences of Forced Disappearance; Notes; Bibliography; Annex: List of Interviews Conducted; Index
Revised and updated version of the author's El detenido-desaparecido : narrativas posibles para una catástrofe de la identidad, published in 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-190) and index.
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.
Ethnology
Social justice.
Human rights.
Criminology.
Sociology.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Sociology, general.
Human Rights.