Unsettling Accounts : Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence /

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Focusing on confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence, Leigh A. Payne asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. She contends public confessions do not settle the past, but catalyze contentious debate. She argues debate and public confessions that trigger...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Leigh A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lateinamerika
Family life > Nigeria.
Demokratisering > fallstudier.
Politiskt våld > fallstudier.
Schuldbelijdenissen.
Martelen.
Politiek geweld.
Terreur.
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
Politische Verfolgung
Political violence.
Democratization.
Confession (Law)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
89.58 political violence.
Democratisation > Études de cas.
Confession (Droit) > Études de cas.
Violence politique > Études de cas.
Democratization > Case studies.
Confession (Law) > Case studies.
Political violence > Case studies.
Nigeria > Description and travel.
Nigeria > Social life and customs.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Confessional performance
  • Remorse
  • Heroic confessions
  • Sadism
  • Denial
  • Silence
  • Fiction and lies
  • Amnesia
  • Betrayal.

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