The Struggle for Memory in Latin America: The Recent History of Political Violence

ALLIER MONTAÑO, EUGENIA; CRENZEL, EMILIO ARIEL

Palgrave Macmillan, Series Memory Politics and Transitional justice

Lugar: Nueva York/Londres ; Año: 2015 p. 272

978-113-751-448-6

The different contributions that make up the book analyze the struggles that took place in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay over the memory of the pasts of political violence. These memory struggles are examined from a political- and social-history-centered perspective, employing tools from both the field of history and other disciplines, including political science, sociology, and anthropology. In this sense, the articles seek to take into account the different ways in which the relevant actors involved look back on these pasts and vie against each other to give meaning to them in the public sphere, and the power relations that result from such confrontations, incorporating to that end various levels of analysis (the initiatives of transnational, regional, and national actors) and different variables (class, gender, ethnicity, geographic location) that shape the changes and continuities in the meanings ascribed to past political violence in each country of the continent.