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The Struggle for Memory in Latin America
This book examines the struggles that unfolded in Latin America over the memory of the pasts of political violence experienced by the countries of the continent in the second half of the twentieth century: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
En la cresta de la ola
Con algo de demora respecto a lo acontecido en otras latitudes, finalmente, la historia del tiempo presente ha desembarcado en México. Este libro exhibe el esfuerzo por delimitar y construir un campo de investigación orientado al estudio de pasados que no terminan de pasar. Un tiempo donde los sucesos estudiados pueden cohabitar con la experiencia vital del historiador o con la posibilidad de encontrar testigos y protagonistas de los hechos indagados. Un tiempo presente marcado por pasados traumáticos resultado de auténticas catástrofes sociales; tempestades políticas que condujeron a violaciones sistemáticas de los Derechos Humanos. Estudiar esos pasados obliga a reflexionar sobre el...
Las luchas por la memoria en América Latina
Este libro ofrece un panorama que contribuye a comprender la naturaleza de los procesos de violencia política que atravesó América Latina en la segunda mitad del siglo xx y por primera vez permite situar en un marco histórico las luchas por la memoria de estos pasados a escala continental. Además, existe otra serie de factores que vuelven a esta obra invaluable para los lectores interesados en la historia contemporánea de América Latina, dado que permite dimensionar las cualidades y magnitudes que revistió la violencia política en el continente y las especificidades que caracterizaron su ejercicio en cada país. Las distintas contribuciones ofrecen una mirada comprensiva de la viole...
La revolución mexicana. Una historia estudiantil
En México, así como en América Latina, la historia de los movimientos de protesta de los años 1960 y 1970 consagró la figura del estudiante revolucionario. A pesar de ello, el estudiante en situación revolucionaria no ha sido el objeto de estudio sino de muy pocos análisis. De manera provocativa, este libro propone una nueva lectura de la Revolución Mexicana, de 1910 a mediados de los años 1940, a través de los movimientos y organizaciones estudiantiles. Defiende la idea de que la Revolución favoreció el surgimiento de un movimiento estudiantil fuerte y perenne, organizado a escala nacional y activo a nivel internacional. Desde su creación, el movimiento estudiantil -que no se l...
Disappearances in Mexico
This volume presents an interdisciplinary analysis of the practice of disappearances in Mexico, from the period of the so-called ‘dirty war’ to the current crisis of disappearances associated with the country’s ‘war on drugs’, during which more than 80,000 people have disappeared. The volume brings together contributions by distinguished scholars from Mexico, Argentina and Europe, who focus their chapters on four broad axes of enquiry. In Part I, chapters examine the phenomenon of disappearances in its historical and present-day forms, and the struggles for memory around the disappeared in Mexico with reference to Argentina. Part II addresses the political dimensions of disappearan...
Hyperborder
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
No Hay Mañana Sin Ayer
This book focuses on the historical memory of political violence, one of the most complex problems faced by Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in the process of consolidating democracy and building a pro-human rights political culture. The authors summarize various aspects of the treatment of historical memory in the Southern Cone since it emerged as a topic in the 1980s and 1990s, but particularly focusing on the 21st century. Its aim is to explore the various dimensions of historical memory and how they relate to each other, evaluating how advances in this field have helped to ensure a democratic future "Nevermore."
Radical Evil on Trial
Does an emergent democracy have an obligation to prosecute its former dictators for crimes against humanity—for what Arendt and Kant called "radical evil"? What impact will such prosecutions have on the future of democracy? In this book, Carlos Santiago Nino offers a provocative first-hand analysis of developments in Argentina during the 1980s, when a brutal military dictatorship gave way to a democratic government. Nino played a key role in guiding the transition to democracy and in shaping the human rights policies of President Ra�l Alfons�n after the fall of the military junta in 1983. The centerpiece of Alfons�n's human rights program was the trial held in a federal court in Buen...
The Struggle for Memory in Latin America
This book examines the struggles that unfolded in Latin America over the memory of the pasts of political violence experienced by the countries of the continent in the second half of the twentieth century: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Stress and Freedom
In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress. Through a highly original reading of Rousseaus late Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Sloterdijk shows that, for Rousseau, the modern subject emerges as a subject free of all stress, unburdened by the cares of the world. Most of modern philosophy, and above all German Idealism, is an attempt to reign back Rousseaus useless and anarchical subject and anchor it in the cares of the world, in the task of having to produce both the world and itself. In the light of this highly original account, Sloterdijk develops his own distinctive account of freedom, where freedom is conceptualized as the availability for the improbable. This important text, in which Sloterdijk develops his account of freedom and the modern subject, will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy and the humanities and to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and critical theory.
