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How the Military Remembers: Human Rights and Countermemories in Latin America

How the Military Remembers: Human Rights and Countermemories in Latin America

Milton, Cynthia E.
Lazzara, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Critical Human Rights

General Military HistorySocial MovementsSouth American History

ISBN10: 0299352706
ISBN13: 9780299352707
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jul 22 2025
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This groundbreaking collection of essays examines how Latin American militaries construct memories of past human rights violations in ways that challenge established public memory and human rights discourse. While previous studies have focused on democratization, transitional justice, and victim-centered narratives, this volume takes a different approach. It highlights the importance of deconstructing the military's own active memory work, or their countermemories--a term the editors use to describe military narratives that are both counterintuitive and that run counter to the victim-oriented memories that have long dominated the region's public memory.

With attention to the distinct cultural, political, and historical contexts across Latin America, the essays reveal how military figures and institutions appropriate mechanisms of truth-telling and accountability to reframe the past, blur the lines between perpetrator and victim, and weaponize memory itself.

Contributors: Mariana Achugar, Gabriela Fried Amilivia, Rebecca Atencio, Jo-Marie Burt, Rachel Hatcher, Nicolás Rodríguez Idárraga, Michael J. Lazzara, Cynthia E. Milton, Carla Granados Moya, María Emma Wills Obregón, Leith Passmore, Valentina Salvi, Gladys Vásquez Zevallos

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