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The Reappeared : Argentine Former Political Prisoners / Rebekah Park.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Genocide, Political Violence, Human RightsPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813568553
  • 9780813568560
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365/.4500982 23
LOC classification:
  • HV9582 .P37 2014
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "The Battle of the Panties" -- 2. "They Disowned Us Twice" -- 3. Suspicion and Collaboration -- 4. Solidarity and Resistance in Prison -- 5. Life After Prison Still Feels Like Imprisonment -- 6. Post-Transitional Justice -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- List of Former Political Prisoner Interviewees -- Index -- About the author
Summary: Between 1976 and 1983, during a period of brutal military dictatorship, armed forces in Argentina abducted 30,000 citizens. These victims were tortured and killed, never to be seen again. Although the history of los desaparecidos, "the disappeared," has become widely known, the stories of the Argentines who miraculously survived their imprisonment and torture are not well understood. The Reappeared is the first in-depth study of an officially sanctioned group of Argentine former political prisoners, the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Córdoba, which organized in 2007. Using ethnographic methods, anthropologist Rebekah Park explains the experiences of these survivors of state terrorism and in the process raises challenging questions about how societies define victimhood, what should count as a human rights abuse, and what purpose memorial museums actually serve. The men and women who reappeared were often ostracized by those who thought they must have been collaborators to have survived imprisonment, but their actual stories are much more complex. Park explains why the political prisoners waited nearly three decades before forming their own organization and offers rare insights into what motivates them to recall their memories of solidarity and resistance during the dictatorial past, even as they suffer from the long-term effects of torture and imprisonment. The Reappeared challenges readers to rethink the judicial and legislative aftermath of genocide and forces them to consider how much reparation is actually needed to compensate for unimaginable-and lifelong-suffering.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. "The Battle of the Panties" -- 2. "They Disowned Us Twice" -- 3. Suspicion and Collaboration -- 4. Solidarity and Resistance in Prison -- 5. Life After Prison Still Feels Like Imprisonment -- 6. Post-Transitional Justice -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- List of Former Political Prisoner Interviewees -- Index -- About the author

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Between 1976 and 1983, during a period of brutal military dictatorship, armed forces in Argentina abducted 30,000 citizens. These victims were tortured and killed, never to be seen again. Although the history of los desaparecidos, "the disappeared," has become widely known, the stories of the Argentines who miraculously survived their imprisonment and torture are not well understood. The Reappeared is the first in-depth study of an officially sanctioned group of Argentine former political prisoners, the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Córdoba, which organized in 2007. Using ethnographic methods, anthropologist Rebekah Park explains the experiences of these survivors of state terrorism and in the process raises challenging questions about how societies define victimhood, what should count as a human rights abuse, and what purpose memorial museums actually serve. The men and women who reappeared were often ostracized by those who thought they must have been collaborators to have survived imprisonment, but their actual stories are much more complex. Park explains why the political prisoners waited nearly three decades before forming their own organization and offers rare insights into what motivates them to recall their memories of solidarity and resistance during the dictatorial past, even as they suffer from the long-term effects of torture and imprisonment. The Reappeared challenges readers to rethink the judicial and legislative aftermath of genocide and forces them to consider how much reparation is actually needed to compensate for unimaginable-and lifelong-suffering.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)