| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Critical human rights
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Critical human rights.
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| Summary |
What happens when concepts of "truth," "memory," and "human rights" are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of violence? Peru has moved from the 1980s-90s conflict between its armed forces and Shining Path militants into an era of open democracy, transitional justice, and truth and reconciliation commissions. Cynthia Milton reveals how Peru's military has engaged in a tactical cultural campaign--via books, films, museums--to shift public opinion, debate, and memories about the nation's violent recent past and its part in it. Milton calls attention to fabrications of our post-truth era but goes further to deeply explore the ways members of the Peruvian military see their past, how they actively commemorate and curate it in the present, and why they do so. Her nuanced approach upends frameworks of memory studies that reduce military and ex-military to a predictable role of outright denial. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the countermemories of "los buenos militares" -- Military memory books: picking up pens to recount their truths -- The army's memory entrepreneurs and their truth report -- Guerra fratricida: the parallel lives and writings of Carlos Freyre and Lurgio Gavilán -- Military curations in the turn to human rights museology -- Captive to history: military memories and censorship in public spaces -- Conclusion: the army's dirge and countermemorial resurrection in the era of human rights. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Armed Forces. |
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Historiography. |
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Peru -- History -- 1980-
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Peru. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1980- |
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Peru -- Politics and government -- 1980-
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Politics and government. |
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Human rights -- Peru -- Historiography -- 20th century.
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Human rights. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Political violence -- Peru -- Historiography -- 20th century.
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Political violence. |
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Memory -- Political aspects -- Peru.
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Memory -- Political aspects. |
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Collective memory -- Peru.
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Collective memory. |
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Peru -- Armed Forces -- Historiography.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1900 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Human rights. |
| ISBN |
9780299315030 (electronic book) |
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0299315037 (electronic book) |
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9780299315009 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0299315002 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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