Payne draws on interviews, unedited television film, newspaper archives, and books written by perpetrators to analyze confessions of state violence in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and South Africa. Each of these four countries addressed its past through a different institutional form—from blanket amnesty, to conditional amnesty based on confessions, to judicial trials. Payne considers perpetrators’ confessions as performance, examining what they say and what they communicate nonverbally; the timing, setting, and reception of their confessions; and the different ways that they portray their pasts, whether in terms of remorse, heroism, denial, or sadism, or through lies or betrayal.
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"Unsettling Accounts is an extremely valuable contribution to social science scholarship. Leigh A. Payne's complex and nuanced analysis of when, why, and how perpetrators confess is far more sophisticated than any other research that I know of."--Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Illustrated. An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentinas Dirty War A member of General Augusto Pinochets intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons A Brazilian military officer draws on his own experiences to write a novel describing the militarys involvement in a massacre during the 1970s The head of a police death squad refuses to become the scapegoat for apartheidera violence in South Africa he begins to name names and provide details of past atrocities to the Truth Commission Focusing on these and other confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence Leigh A Payne asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions While mechanisms such as South Africas Truth and Reconciliation Commission are touted as means of settling accounts with the past Payne contends that public confessions do not settle the past They are unsettling by nature Rather than reconcile past violence they catalyze contentious debate She argues that this debateand the public confessions that trigger itare healthy for democratic processes of political participation freedom of expression and the contestation of political ideasPayne draws on interviews unedited television film newspaper archives and books written by perpetrators to analyze confessions of state violence in Argentina Chile Brazil and South Africa Each of these four countries addressed its past through a different institutional formfrom blanket amnesty to conditional amnesty based on confessions to judicial trials Payne considers perpetrators confessions as performance examining what they say and what they communicate nonverbally the timing setting and reception of their confessions and the different ways that they portray their pasts whether in terms of remorse heroism denial or sadism or through lies or betrayal. Seller Inventory # DADAX0822340828
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