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
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Summary: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 it are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and contestation of political ideas. She draws on interviews, television film, newspaper archives, and books written by perpetrators to analyze confessions of state violence in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and South Africa. She considers perpetrators' confessions as performance, examining what perpetrators say and what they communicate non-verbally and different ways that perpetrators portray their pasts, whether in terms of remorse or heroism, denial or sadism, or through lies or betrayal--Publisher's description.
Item Description:"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Page i
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822390435

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