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The Economic Accomplices to the Argentine Dictatorship
This book uncovers how banks, individuals, and companies worked as economic accomplices to the oppressive Argentinian dictatorship.
She was there
Between 1976 and 1983 in Argentina the highest military and political State authorities committed a bloody crime against humanity. More than thirty thousand women and men, dissident and alleged to be dissident, were killed by a murderous machine that, after unconceivable acts of violence, decided their disappearing by denying any fundamental right. The mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the association set up by the mothers of the disappeared ones, the so-called desaparecidos, is still going on with its fight invoking justice. Francesca Sassano lets the excrutiating tragedy of those women come out through a clear and historically reliable story as a novel widening the echos of sorrow, the questions of a large crowd, the indifference generated by terror, the incredulity of the rest of the world. Not to forget, so that “silence never becomes a comfortable blindfold, nor an iron tip on the neck”.
Diplomacy on the Edge
Ahrens provides the general history of the conflicts and brings the story up through 2004.
The Custodians of Biodiversity
Agricultural biodiversity is a precious legacy which we have a moral duty to pass on intact to future generations. As farming systems modernise, these crucial resources risk being lost, unless effective conservation measures are put in place and sufficient recognition is given to the role of the farmer in food security and agricultural development. This publication contains a number of black and white photographs by Pablo Balbontân Arenas, which give an insight into the life and customs of small farmers who foster, maintain and use genetic diversity in traditional agricultural systems, deploying local techniques and knowledge accumulated over many centuries, focusing on four crops: wheat, rice, maize and potato. The accompanying text is written in English, Spanish and Italian.
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales and between metaphor and practice. Host-guest relations are multiplied through pregnancy and childbirth, and new forms of hospitality emerge with the need to offer mortuary practices for dead strangers, helping to illuminate the spatial and scalar dimensions of morality and politics in Mediterranean migrant reception.
East and West
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Bergoglio's List
A Dictator. An Uprising. A Priest Who Saved Lives. In 1976 when Fr. Jorge Bergoglio was just 39 years old and serving as provincial superior of the Jesuits of Argentina, the military overthrew the government in a coup. The dictatorship went to work against subversives and communist adversaries through abductions, tortures, and even murders resulting in the disappearance of about 30,000 people. Scavo uncovers how Bergoglio built an elaborate network consisting of clandestine passageways, secret hideouts, and covert automobile rides, all in attempt to save what has been estimated at more than 100 people. Bergoglio’s List is a collection of personal stories of the now-Pope of those who knew him during the days of the dictatorship, including: • three students hidden for weeks by Fr. Bergoglio • how he saved a prominent, dissident politician under the cover of darkness • his bold march into an Argentine prison • and much more For the first time in English, experience not only the untold story of Bergoglio’s courage and heroism, but gain an insider’s view of the place where he was born and grew into the man we now know as Pope Francis.
Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World
This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world—from the Americas to Australia—in novels, short stories, plays, and films. The chapters move from what appear to be interpersonal instances of violence to communal conflicts such as civil war, showing how these acts of violence are specifically rooted in colonial forms of abuse and oppression but constantly move and morph. Taking its cue from theories in such fields as postcolonial, violence, gender, and trauma studies, the book thus shows that violence is slippery in form, but also fluid in nature, so that one must trace its movement across time and space to understand even a single instance of it. When analysing such forms and trajectories of violence in postcolonial creative writing and films, the contributors critically examine the ethical issues involved in narrating abuse, depicting violated bodies, and presenting romanticized resolutions that may conceal other forms of violence.
Lei stava lì
Tra il 1976 e 1983 in Argentina si compì, ad opera dei vertici militari e politici dello Stato, un sanguinoso crimine contro l’umanità. Oltre trentamila, tra donne e uomini, dissidenti e presunti tali, furono eliminati, da una macchina omicida che, dopo aver usato violenze inimmaginabili, ne decretò la sparizione negando ogni basilare diritto. Madri di Plaza de Mayo, l’associazione costituita dalle madri di quegli scomparsi, i desaparecidos, continua ancora oggi la sua battaglia invocando giustizia. Francesca Sassano fa emergere il dramma straziante di quelle donne attraverso un racconto lucido e storicamente attendibile, che nella forma del romanzo dilata gli echi di dolore, gli interrogativi di una moltitudine, l’indifferenza generata dal terrore, l’incredulità del resto del mondo. Per non dimenticare, affinché “il silenzio non sia mai comoda benda sugli occhi, né punta di ferro sul collo”.
