Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Esparza, Marcia; Ycaza, Carla de

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes as well as protecting and sheltering targeted victims-including the dead-during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. In light of newly unearthed archival evidence, testimonial memories, and the continued mobilization of human rights groups to preserve Cold War memory, this timely book moves beyond the victim-perpetrator dichotomy and its discursive studies to focus on those whose moral courage and righteous acts were beacons of hope in the midst of extreme violence. Remembering Latin American "righteousness," a term used in Holocaust literature, is important in recognizing that those who resisted human rights violations and protected victims yesterday are those who often keep the collective memory of that past alive today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498533270
• Artikelnr.: 47670135

Autorenporträt

Marcia Esparza is sociologist and associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She is the Founder and Co-Director of the Historical Memory Project (HMP). Carla De Ycaza teaches at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University and serves as editor of Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network at Columbia University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Remember the Rescuers in Latin America?
Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernan
Chapter 1: Rescued From Fear: The Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against
Torture in Chile
Christopher Ney
Chapter 2: Bending the Rules: An Ambassador's Quest to Save Lives
Pascale Bonnefoy
Chapter 3: The Santo Tomás Chichicastenango's Municipal Firefighters:
"Green Pines Covering the Dead Bodies"
Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy Sanandres
Chapter 4: Strategic Rescue Responses to Genocide: The Guatemalan Case
Roddy Brett
Chapter 5: Between Memory and Oblivion: The Cases of Eureka and Afadem
Isabel de León Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam Rodriguez
Chapter 6: From Rescue to Solidarity: (Re) Humanizing Relationships for
Social Transformation
Jenny Escobar and Angie Tamayo
Chapter 7: Argentine Rescuers: A Study on the "Banality of Good"
Jessica Casiro
Conclusion: On the Moral Value of Rescue and Remembering Rescuers:
Conceptualizing Rescue in the Latin American Context
Jeffrey Blustein
About the Contributors and Editors