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State repression and the labors of memory / Elizabeth Jelin ; translated by Judy Rein and Marcial Godoy-Anativia.
Van Pelt Library JC599.S55 J4513 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jelin, Elizabeth, 1941-
- Series:
- Contradictions (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; 18.
- Contradictions ; 18
- Standardized Title:
- Trabajos de la memoria. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Political persecution--South America.
- Political persecution.
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism--South America.
- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism.
- Memory--Social aspects--South America.
- Memory.
- Memory--Political aspects--South America.
- Memory (Philosophy).
- Memory--Political aspects.
- Memory--Social aspects.
- South America.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 163 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In State Repression and the Struggles for Memory, sociologist Elizabeth Jelin exposes the enduring consequences of repression and the conflicted and contingent nature of memory. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from Bosnia to Rwanda to Argentina's Dirty War, she explores how memory and politics intertwine and the forms in which memory - and forgetting - shape individual and collective identities. The book is rooted in the past of South America, but its reach is much wider. The analysis and reflections presented here draw on theories of historical and social memory, trauma and testimony, 'truth' and how memory is created through confrontation and struggle. Cutting across disciplines - history, anthropology, sociology, psychology and legal anthropology - State Repression and the Struggles for Memory is the best existing introduction to the political uses of memory.
- Contents:
- Memory in the contemporary world
- What memories are we talking about?
- Political struggles for memory
- History and social memory
- Trauma, testimony, and "truth"
- Engendered memories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0816642834
- 0816642842
- OCLC:
- 52477354
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