Remembering the rescuers of victims of human rights crimes in Latin America / edited by Marcia Esparza and Carla De Ycaza.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Esparza, Marcia, editor.

De Ycaza, Carla, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights workers--Latin America.

Human rights workers.

Human rights--Latin America.

Human rights.

Latin America.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America explores the significance of remembering the rescuers who were denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victims-including the dead-during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. In light of newly unearthed archival evidence, testimonial memories, and the continued mobilization of human rights groups' to preserve Cold War memory, this timely book moves beyond the victim-perpetrator dichotomy and its discursive studies to focus on those whose moral courage and righteous acts were beacons for good in the midst of extreme violence. Remembering Latin American "righteousness," a term used in Holocaust literature, is important in recognizing that those who resisted human rights violations and protected victims yesterday are those who often keep the collective memory of that past alive today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction: why remember the rescuers in Latin America? / Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernan

Rescued from fear: the Sebastian Acevedo movement against torture in Chile / Christopher Ney

Bending the rules: an ambassador's quest to save lives / Pascale Bonnefoy

The Santo Tomás chichicastenango's municipal firefighters : "Green pines covering the dead bodies" / Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy Sanandres

Strategic rescue responses to genocide : the Guatemalan case / Roddy Brett

Between memory and oblivion : the cases of Eureka and Afadem / Isabel de León Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam Rodriguez

From rescue to solidarity : (re) humanizing relationships for social transformation / Jenny Escobar and Angie Tamayo

Argentine rescuers : a study on the "banality of good" / Jessica Casiro

Conclusion: on the moral value of rescue and remembering rescuers : conceptualizing rescue in the Latin American context / Jeffrey Blustein

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Remembering the rescuers of victims of human rights crimes in Latin America

ISBN:

9781498533270

1498533272

OCLC:

966971722

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