
The Struggle for the Past
How We Construct Social Memories
Elizabeth Jelin(Author)
Berghahn Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 3. March 2021
Book
Hardback
236 pages
978-1-78920-782-8 (ISBN)
Description
In all societies-but especially those that have endured political violence-the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around the Argentine experience since the 1970s within the broader context of the Southern Cone and international developments, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory's dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization, it gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field of inquiry, lucidly recounting the author's own intellectual and personal journey during these decades.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
23 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78920-782-8 (9781789207828)
DOI
10.3167/9781789207828
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Person
Elizabeth Jelin is a Senior Researcher at the National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET) and the Institute of Economic and Social Development (IDES) in Buenos Aires. A foundational figure in the development of Memory Studies as a discipline, she is the author of numerous books, of which several have been translated into English.
Content
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Past: Conflictive and Never-Ending
Chapter 2. Building a Research Field: Memory and Gender in Latin American Social Sciences
Chapter 3. Explorations, Certainties, and Uncertainties: The Human Rights Movement and Building Democracy in Argentina
Chapter 4. Markers of Memory: Dates, Places, Archives
Chapter 5. Victims, Relatives, or Citizens? Whose Voices are Legitimate Enough?
Chapter 6. Sexual Abuse as a Crime against Humanity and the Right to Privacy
Chapter 7. Taking the Floor: Testimonial Voices over Time
Chapter 8. Memory-for what? Towards a More Democratic Future
Bibliography
Introduction
Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Past: Conflictive and Never-Ending
Chapter 2. Building a Research Field: Memory and Gender in Latin American Social Sciences
Chapter 3. Explorations, Certainties, and Uncertainties: The Human Rights Movement and Building Democracy in Argentina
Chapter 4. Markers of Memory: Dates, Places, Archives
Chapter 5. Victims, Relatives, or Citizens? Whose Voices are Legitimate Enough?
Chapter 6. Sexual Abuse as a Crime against Humanity and the Right to Privacy
Chapter 7. Taking the Floor: Testimonial Voices over Time
Chapter 8. Memory-for what? Towards a More Democratic Future
Bibliography