Resistance to Political Violence in Latin America Documenting Atrocity /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bernasconi, Oriana (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Economic development.; Social change.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; World politics.; Latin American Politics.; Development and Social Change.; Regional Development.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Political History.

This book analyzes state terror documentation as a form of peaceful resistance to oppressive regimes through substantial research in human rights archives that registered violations perpetrated by Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. The contributors provide in-depth analysis on state viol...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: A Civilian Response to State Terror
• 2. Political Technologies of Registration and Denunciation of State Violence
• 3. How to sustain a human rights organisation under state violence
• 4. Professions and Profiles: Epistemic Communities and the Registration of Human Rights Violations
• 5. Making state violence visible: Documenting, investigating and denouncing atrocities
• 6. The repertoire of Political violence: naming, defining and classifying
• 7. Registration and documentation of State violence as judicial evidence in human rights trials
• 8. Conclusion: Documentation of State Terrorism as Resistance
• 9. Epilogue.