Binding: Paperback
Description: Since the demise of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, collaboration and complicity - - both in the torture chamber and civil society - - have been taboo topics not only for the Chilean left but also for society at large. By revisiting the experience of Luz Arce Sandoval - - a leftist militant turned collaborator with Pinochet's secret police - - Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile raises urgent political and ethical questions about how nations carry out unspeakable violence in the name of "progress" and "democracy." Juxtaposing interviews legal documents and academic analysis this book probes the personal and collective dimensions of torture collaborationism truth justice reconciliation and memory issues that resonate in Latin America and beyond.
Title: Luz Arce And Pinochet's Chile Testimony In The Aftermath Of State Violence
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9780230622760
Pages: 197 Pages, Xx, 197 P.
Publication Date: 9/26/2011
Category: Politics & Government