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Shattered Voices : Language, Violence, and the Work of Truth Commissions.
Following periods of mass atrocity and oppression, states are faced with a question of critical importance in the transition to democracy: how to offer redress to victims of the old regime without perpetuating cycles of revenge. Traditionally, balance has been restored through arrests, trials, and p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue for Paulina
- The demise of Paulina's good: from personal revenge to state punishment
- The demonizing of revenge
- Language, violence and oppression
- What can stories do?
- Telling stories in a search of justice: the Argentinian, Chilean, and Salvadoran truth commissions
- Telling stories in a search for more than justice: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- The truth must dazzle gradually.