Payne / Whitehead / Fair Unsettling Accounts

Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9043-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Focuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Payne, Leigh A.

Whitehead, Neil L.

Fair, Jo Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction: The Political Power of Confession 1

1. Confessional Performance 13

2. Remorse 41

3. Heroic Confessions 75

4. Sadism 107

5. Denial 141

6. Silence 173

7. Fiction and Lies 197

8. Amnesia 229

9. Betrayal 251

Conclusion: Contentious Coexistence 271

Notes 293

Bibliography 343

Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Uncivil Movements: The Armed Right-Wing and Democracy in Latin America and a coeditor of The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule and Business and Democracy in Latin America.