Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America

• Main Author: Carmody, Michelle Frances (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Latin America-History.; World history.; World politics.; Historiography.; Latin American History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Political History.; Memory Studies.

In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional-it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation. Contextualizing cultural and political shifts...