{"product_id":"how-the-military-remembers-human-rights-and-countermemories-in-latin-america-hardback-9780299352707","title":"How the Military Remembers; Human Rights and Countermemories in Latin America (Hardback) 9780299352707","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow the Military Remembers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHuman Rights and Countermemories in Latin America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCynthia E. Milton (Edited by), Michael Lazzara (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299352707\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 13 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Examines how the militaries of Latin American countries confront truth commissions, memory sites, trials, and reparations. This book is indispensable for understanding the continent’s ongoing ‘memory wars.’” - Emilio Crenzel, author of \u003cem\u003eMemory of the Argentina Disappearances: The Political History of \"Nunca Más\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A timely volume. The arguments and analysis offer original perspectives on complicated processes, and the study usefully expands upon foundational sources in the field of memory studies. This excellent text is essential reading.” - Nancy Gates Madsen, author of \u003cem\u003eTrauma, Taboo, and Truth-Telling: Listening to Silences in Postdictatorship Argentina\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis groundbreaking collection of essays by experts in political science, sociology, history, and literature analyzes the nuanced and often contentious interplay between memory, truth, and accountability in contemporary Latin America. While previous studies have examined democratization efforts (and right-wing backlashes), transitional justice, and victim-oriented narratives since the end of the Cold War, this volume takes a new approach. It convincingly demonstrates the importance of deconstructing the militaries’ own active memory work—or rather countermemory work, a term the contributors employ to refer to military memories that are both counterintuitive and run counter to the “victim-oriented” memories that have historically informed Latin American public memory and human rights activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With an eye toward particular cultural, political, and historical contexts of the specific countries involved, the collection emphasizes the continuities that come into relief by taking a broader regional focus. The contributors identify the many subtle ways in which past military perpetrators appropriate mechanisms of accountability and truth-telling to reconfigure the past, muddy the distinctions between perpetrator and victim, and weaponize ways of remembering.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e PART I. Refashioning Military Men in Democracies\u003cbr\u003e 1 In the Name of the Father: Uncovering the Paternity of Military Memories of Dictatorship in Brazil, Rebecca Atencio\u003cbr\u003e 2 Fiction, Freedom, and Relativism: Human Rights in \u003ci\u003ePinochetista \u003c\/i\u003eMemory in Post-Pinochet Chile (1998–\u003cbr\u003e2019), Leith Passmore\u003cbr\u003e 3 Heroes and Genocidaires: Retired Officers of the Argentinian Army and Their Memories of the Recent Past, Valentina Salvi\u003cbr\u003e 4 Perpetrator Confessions and Discourses of Impunity in Post-transitional Uruguay: The Cases of Gavazzo and TrÓ\u003cbr\u003eccoli, Mariana Achugar and Gabriela Fried Amilivia\u003cbr\u003e 5 Military Narratives of Heroism and Sacrifice in War Crimes Trials in Guatemala, Jo-Marie Burt\u003cbr\u003e PART II. Memorializing Military Memories\u003cbr\u003e 6 “\u003cbr\u003eThe Hero of Joateca”\u003cbr\u003e: The Salvadoran Military’\u003cbr\u003es Stubborn Memory of Domingo Monterrosa, Rachel Hatcher\u003cbr\u003e 7 Visualizing Soldiers as Victims: Kidnapping, and Photographic Proof of Survival in Colombia, Nicolas RodrÍ\u003cbr\u003eguez IdÁ\u003cbr\u003erraga\u003cbr\u003e 8 Captive to History: Military Memories and Censorship in Public Spaces, Cynthia E. Milton\u003cbr\u003e 9 An Unorthodox Relationship: Colombia’\u003cbr\u003es Public Forces and the National Center for Historical Memory (2012–\u003cbr\u003e2019), MarÍ\u003cbr\u003ea Emma Wills Obregon\u003cbr\u003e PART III. Inheriting Military Pasts\u003cbr\u003e 10 The Challenges and Risks of Producing “\u003cbr\u003eMemory with History”\u003cbr\u003e Within the Peruvian Army, Carla Granados and Gladys VÁ\u003cbr\u003esquez\u003cbr\u003e 11 Relatives of Perpetrators and Collaborators in Chile: Implicated Subjects, Memory, and Responsibility, Michael J. Lazzara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530916622616,"sku":"9780299352707","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/how-the-military-remembers-human-rights-and-countermemories-in-latin-america-hardback-9780299352707","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}