Recent History in the Courtroom: Notes on an Experience as an Expert Witness in a Trial for Crimes Against Humanity in Argentina

GARAÑO, SANTIAGO

International Public History

De Gruyter Oldenbourg - Official organ of the International Federation for Public History

Lugar: München; Año: 2020 vol. 3 p. 1 - 4

2567-1111

In this work I reflect on a new figure that has been gaining presence in trials for crimes against humanity since 2005: the context witness, a specialist usually coming from social sciences who is presented as a witness and whose contribution is taken as testimonial evidence. I rely on my participation in the oral and public trial Operative Independence, in which I testified about my doctoral research on the experience of soldiers conscripted in the south of Tucumán, Argentina between 1975 and 1977. My argument is that social sciences can provide meticulous reconstructions of the logic of repression, helping us to understand how state terror was possible.En: Dossier Identity, Memory, and the Transitional Landscape: Public History in the Context of Transitional Justice, coordinado por Radhika Hettiarachchi & Ricardo Santhiago. En: International Public History Journal, publicado por International Federation of Public History en asociación con German publisher De Gruyter Oldenbourg. International Public History is covered by the following services: Baidu Scholar; CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure); CNPIEC - cnpLINKer; Dimensions; EBSCO Discovery Service; Google Scholar; J-Gate; KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders); MyScienceWork; Naver Academic; Naviga (Softweco); Primo Central (ExLibris); Publons; QOAM (Quality Open Access Market); ReadCube; Scilit; SCImago (SJR); SCOPUS; Semantic Scholar; Sherpa/RoMEO; Summon (ProQuest); TDNet; WanFang Data; Web of Science - Emerging Sources Citation Index; WorldCat (OCLC); X-MOL; Yewno Discover.