Weld Paper Cadavers

The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7658-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

In 2005, human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of Guatemala's National Police. In Paper Cadavers, Kirsten Weld tells the story of the astonishing discovery and rescue of 75 million pages of evidence of state-sponsored crimes, and analyzes the repercussions for both the people and the state of Guatemala.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weld, Kirsten

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Power of Archival Thinking Part I: Explosions at the Archives Chapter 1: Excavating Babylon Chapter 2: Archival Culture, State Secrets, and the Archive Wars Chapter 3: How the Guerrillero Became an Archivist Part II: Archives and Counterinsurgency in Cold War Guatemala Chapter 4: Building Counterinsurgency Archives Chapter 5: Recycling the National Police in War, Peace, and Post-Peace Part III: Archives and Social Reconstruction in Postwar Guatemala Chapter 6: Revolutionary Lives in the Archives Chapter 7: Archives and the Next Generation(s) Part IV: Pasts Present and the Future Imperfect Chapter 8: Changing the Law of What Can Be Said, and Done Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Possibilities and Limitations of Archival Thinking Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsten Weld is Assistant Professor of History at Harvard University.