The Struggle for the Past

How We Construct Social Memories
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-782-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Reihe: Worlds of Memory

In all societies—but especially those that have endured political violence—the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around the Argentine experience since the 1970s within the broader context of the Southern Cone and international developments, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization, it gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field of inquiry, lucidly recounting the author’s own intellectual and personal journey during these decades.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jelin, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Past: Conflictive and Never-Ending

Chapter 2. Building a Research Field: Memory and Gender in Latin American Social Sciences

Chapter 3. Explorations, Certainties, and Uncertainties: The Human Rights Movement and Building Democracy in Argentina

Chapter 4. Markers of Memory: Dates, Places, Archives

Chapter 5. Victims, Relatives, or Citizens? Whose Voices are Legitimate Enough?

Chapter 6. Sexual Abuse as a Crime against Humanity and the Right to Privacy

Chapter 7. Taking the Floor: Testimonial Voices over Time

Chapter 8. Memory—for what? Towards a More Democratic Future

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jelin, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Jelin is a Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET) and the Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES) in Buenos Aires. A foundational figure in the development of Memory Studies as a discipline, she is the author of numerous books, of which several have been translated into English.