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Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America.

This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victims-including the dead-during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. It moves past a victim - perpetrator dichotomy to focus on those whose righteous acts were beacons fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alfaro, Stephanie
Otros Autores: Blustein, Jeffrey, Bonnefoy, Pascale, Brett, Roddy, Casiro, Jessica, De León Olivares, Isabel, Escobar, Jenny, Esparza, Marcia, De Ycaza, Carla
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: why remember the rescuers in Latin America? / Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernan
  • Rescued from fear: the Sebastian Acevedo movement against torture in Chile / Christopher Ney
  • Bending the rules: an ambassador's quest to save lives / Pascale Bonnefoy
  • The Santo Tomás chichicastenango's municipal firefighters : "Green pines covering the dead bodies" / Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy Sanandres
  • Strategic rescue responses to genocide : the Guatemalan case / Roddy Brett
  • Between memory and oblivion : the cases of Eureka and Afadem / Isabel de León Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam Rodriguez
  • From rescue to solidarity : (re) humanizing relationships for social transformation / Jenny Escobar and Angie Tamayo
  • 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.