The brazilian truth commission : local, national and global perspectives / edited by Nina Schneider.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, Nina, 1980- editor.

Series:

Studies in Latin American and Spanish history ; Volume 4.

Studies in Latin American and Spanish history ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazil. Comissão Nacional da Verdade.

Brazil.

Crimes against humanity--Brazil.

Crimes against humanity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. While attentive to the inquiry’s local and national dimensions, it offers an illuminating transnational perspective that considers the Commission’s Latin American regional context and relates it to global efforts for human rights accountability, contributing to a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of viewpoints.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Brazilian Truth Commission in Local, National and Global Perspective

Part I The Brazilian National Truth Commission

Section 1 Emergence and Context

Chapter 1 Dear Madame President A Never-Delivered Speech and a Never-Ending Story

Chapter 2 The Public Prosecutor’s Office of São Paulo and the Legacy of the Dictatorship: A Brief Report on Activities Prior to the Truth Commission

Chapter 3 The Censorship of History and Fact-Finding in Brazil (1964−2018)

Chapter 4 Democratic Transition and Conciliation: Human Rights and the Legacy of the Brazilian Dictatorship

Section 2 Novelties of the Brazilian Model: The National Commission, Local Committees and Corporate Complicity

Chapter 5 The National Truth Commission (NTC) Truth and Responsibility

Chapter 6 Repression, Resistance and the Intergenerational Dialogue: Establishing a Truth Commission at the University of Brasília

Chapter 7 Truth Commissions in the Digital Age: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case

Chapter 8 Corporate Complicity in the Brazilian Dictatorship

Chapter 9 Volkswagen do Brasil during the Military Dictatorship: An Economic and Political Assessment

Section 3 First Assessments of Brazil’s National Truth Commission

Chapter 10 The Outcomes of the Brazilian Truth Commission: Successes and Failures in a Lengthy Transitional Justice Process

Chapter 11 The Struggle for the Voice of the Victims in the National Truth Commission (Brazil) Memories and Truth, Yesterday and Today

Chapter 12 ‘Nunca Mais’ Lessons from Brazil’s Dictatorial Past

Part II Truth Commissions in Context: Comparing Latin America

Section 1 Comparing Specific Truth Commissions

Chapter 13 Truth Commissions and Their Archives in El Salvador, Peru and Brazil

Chapter 14 Memory, Truth and Auto-Fiction in the Recent Latin American Novel

Part III Truth Commissions between the Global and the Local

Section 1 Truth Commissions’ Worldwide Dispersion and Function

Chapter 15 Reconfigurations of Transitional Justice in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Global, Regional and Local Developments

Chapter 16 Truth Commissions A Bottom-Up Approach to Institution-Building

Afterword

Appendix 1 List of Selected Local Truth Commissions in Brazil by Region and State

Appendix 2 Selected List of Brazilian Online Resources (in alphabetical order)

Appendix 3Appendix 3 Photos from the Brazilian Truth Commission

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789200041

1789200040

OCLC:

1347246556