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.
| ISBN: | 9780299315047 |
| Publication date: | 14th January 2020 |
| Author: | Cynthia E Milton |
| Publisher: | The University of Wisconsin Press an imprint of University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 296 pages |
| Series: | Critical Human Rights |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Human rights, civil rights Military history |
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.
Conflicted Memory features in the following genres: History of the Americas, Human rights, civil rights, Military history
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Conflicted Memory was written by Cynthia E Milton and published by The University of Wisconsin Press an imprint of University of Wisconsin Press
Conflicted Memory has 296 pages
Yes it is part of Critical Human Rights series