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- Title
- Human rights, victimhood and impunity : an anthropology of democracy in Argentina
- Related
- Social analysis : international journal of social and cultural practice, Vol. 51, Issue 1, p.179-197
- DOI
- 10.3167/sa.2007.510112
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Date
- 2007
- Author/Creator
- Humphrey, Michael
- Author/Creator
- Valverde, Estela
- Description
- This article explores human rights politics in the transition from dictatorship to democracy in Argentina. Its ethnographic focus is the phenomenon of families of victims associations, usually led by mothers, that first emerged to protest against mass disappearance under the military dictatorship. Democracy has also produced new families of victims associations protesting against different forms of state abuse and/or neglect. They represent one face of the widespread protest against a 'culture of impunity' experienced as ongoing insecurity and injustice. Private grief is made an emotional resource for collective action in the form of 'political mourning'. The media, street demonstrations, and litigation are used to try to make the state accountable. State management of this public suffering has sought to determine legitimate victimhood based on a paradigm of innocence. The political mourning of victims and survivors charts the social margins of citizenship in the reduced, not expanded, neo-liberal democratic state in Argentina.
- Description
- 19 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 200200 Cultural Studies
- Subject Keyword
- transitional justice
- Subject Keyword
- Argentina
- Subject Keyword
- victims
- Subject Keyword
- South Africa
- Subject Keyword
- collective action
- Subject Keyword
- democracy
- Subject Keyword
- disappearance
- Subject Keyword
- human rights
- Subject Keyword
- impunity
- Subject Keyword
- political mourning
- Subject Keyword
- suffering
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of European Languages
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/70321
- Identifier
- mq:6942
- Identifier
- ISSN:0155-977X
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2007011761
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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