Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America

This book analyzes state terror documentation as a form of peaceful resistance to oppressive regimes through substantial research in human rights archives that registered violations perpetrated by Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. The contributors provide in-depth analysis on state violence documentation, denunciation and resistance and how it affected civilians, activists and victims. Additionally, the project introduces research in transitional contexts (post-dictatorship, post-apartheid and post-colonialism) showing the role of documentation practices in achieving truth, reparation and justice. This work will be relevant to academics, students and researchers in the fields of political science, political history, Latin American and memory studies.

Analyzes substantial archival research of documents denouncing the military dictatorship's abuses Compares uses of human rights documentation during state terror and in transitional processes Provides in-depth analysis of the documentary work that sustained nonviolent civic resistance to state terrorism

Autorentext
Oriana Bernasconi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile. Her research focuses on political violence, knowledge and subjectivities.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: A Civilian Response to State Terror.- 2. Political Technologies of Registration and Denunciation of State Violence.- 3. How to sustain a human rights organisation under state violence.- 4. Professions and Profiles: Epistemic Communities and the Registration of Human Rights Violations.- 5. Making state violence visible: Documenting, investigating and denouncing atrocities.- 6. The repertoire of Political violence: naming, defining and classifying.- 7. Registration and documentation of State violence as judicial evidence in human rights trials.- 8. Conclusion: Documentation of State Terrorism as Resistance.- 9. Epilogue