The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances (Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas) - Softcover

Crenzel, Emilio

9780815381396: The Memory of the Argentina Disappearances (Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas)

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ISBN 10: 0815381395 ISBN 13: 9780815381396

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

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Memory of the Argentina Disappearances examines the history of the production, public circulation, and the interpretations and reinterpretations of the Nunca M�s report issued by Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP). It was established in 1983 by constitutional president Ra�l Alfons�n to investigate the fate of thousands of people who had been disappeared by the state during the seventies.

Upon publication in 1984, Nunca M�s became a bestseller, was translated into several languages and won greater public importance when the military juntas were brought to trial and the court accepted the report as key evidence. The report’s importance was further enhanced with the adoption of CONADEP and Nunca M�s as models for truth commissions established in Latin America, and when it was postulated as a means for conveying an awareness of this past to Argentina’s younger generations.

This book contributes to understanding the political processes that led to Nunca M�s becoming the way in which Argentines remembered the disappearances and the country’s political violence, and how its meaning is modified by new interpretations. Given the canonical nature of Nunca M�s, the book sheds light on the most substantial changes and the continuities in Argentina’s social memory of its recent past.

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About the Author

Emilio Crenzel is Researcher at the National Council of Scientific Research (CONICET) and Professor of Sociology (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina). He has authored papers about transitional justice, human rights, and social memories of the political violence and dictatorship in Argentina. He has also published in journals in Europe, Canada, Israel, Brazil, United States and Mexico.

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"The production and effects of the Argentine Nunca M�s report, well-known events in recent Latin American history, have been hardly analyzed with such thoroughness. Crenzel brings politics back to our understanding of human rights and showing the array of actors and ideas involved in the crafting and later interpretation of this landmark in the history of global human rights movements. In addition, he masters the cultural and sociological implications of these processes." – Vania Markarian, Columbia University

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