Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America : A Janus-Faced Paradigm?

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Argentina -- 1 "What Do You Mean By Transitional Justice?" -- Part II: Brazil -- 2 Scopes and Limits to the Transitional Justice Discourse in Brazil -- 3 Transitional Justice from the Margins -- Part III: El Salvador -- 4 Toward Reconsidering the Root Causes of Violence -- Part IV: Peru -- 5 First Empowerment, Then Disillusion -- 6 How Transitional Is Justice? -- Part V: Uruguay -- 7 Uruguay and the Reconceptualization of Transitional Justice -- Part VI: Latin America -- 8 Concluding Reflections -- Useful Online Resources -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America deconstructs the myth of unanimous support for the transitional justice paradigm across Latin America and conceptualizes transitional justice as a Janus-faced paradigm, as historically it has often hindered rather than advanced the quest for memory, truth, and justice. Based on local empirical evidence and including valuable voices from the Latin American Global South, this edited collection contradicts dominant assumptions in the much-cited international transitional justice literature.

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