| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 374 pages) : illustrations |
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The cultures and practice of violence series |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Cultures and practice of violence series.
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| Contents |
Confessional performance -- Remorse -- Heroic confessions -- Sadism -- Denial -- Silence -- Fiction and lies -- Amnesia -- Betrayal |
| Summary |
Focusing on confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence, Leigh A. Payne asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. She contends public confessions do not settle the past, but catalyze contentious debate. She argues debate and public confessions that trigger it are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and contestation of political ideas. She draws on interviews, television film, newspaper archives, and books written by perpetrators to analyze confessions of state violence in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and South Africa. She considers perpetrators' confessions as performance, examining what perpetrators say and what they communicate non-verbally and different ways that perpetrators portray their pasts, whether in terms of remorse or heroism, denial or sadism, or through lies or betrayal--Publisher's description |
| Notes |
"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Page i |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-352) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Lateinamerika gnd |
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Political violence -- Case studies
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Confession (Law) -- Case studies
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Democratization -- Case studies
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Family life -- Nigeria
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89.58 political violence.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Human Rights.
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Confession (Law)
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Democratization
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Political violence
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Politische Verfolgung
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Terreur.
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Politiek geweld.
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Martelen.
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Schuldbelijdenissen.
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Politiskt våld -- fallstudier.
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Demokratisering -- fallstudier.
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Family life -- Nigeria.
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| SUBJECT |
Nigeria -- Social life and customs
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Nigeria -- Description and travel
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| Subject |
Lateinamerika
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Nigeria -- Social life and customs.
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Nigeria -- Description and travel.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822390435 |
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0822390434 |
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9786612923586 |
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661292358X |
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1282923587 |
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9781282923584 |
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