Fear At the Edge - State Terror and Resistance in Latin America

"A genuinely interdisciplinary work . . . the best attempt I have ever seen at a truly unified intellectuals' approach to an important issue."—Timothy Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown University

"Very seldom does a collected volume achieve the academic quality and internal coherence that one sees in this case. It is a major contribution to comparative research on post-authoritarian situations."—Carlos Waisman, University of California, San Diego

List of contents

Introduction
Fear: A Cultural and Political Construct
by Juan E. Corradi, Patricia Weiss Fagen,
and Manuel Antonio Garret6n 

PART ONE. FEAR AND AUTHORITARIANISM
1. Fear in Military Regimes: An Overview 
by Manuel Antonio Garret6n
2. Some People Die of Fear: Fear as a Political Problem 
by Norbert Lechner

PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING CULTURES OF FEAR
3. Repression and State Security 
by Patricia Weiss Fagen
4. Victims of Fear: The Social Psychology of Repression 
by Sofia Salimovich, Elizabeth Lira, and Eugenia Weinstein
5. Makers and Guardians of Fear: Controlled Terror
in Uruguay by Juan Rial
6. Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum 
by Jean Franco

PART THREE. RESOURCES, STRATEGIES, AND CONSTRAINTS: FIGHTING FEAR
7. Resistance to Fear in Chile: The Experience of the Vicaria de la Solidaridad 
by Hugo Fruhling
8. Fear of the State, Fear of Society: On the Opposition Protests in Chile 
by Javier Martinez
9. Testimonial Literature and the Armed Struggle in Brazil 
by Joan Dassin
10. Cultures of Fear, Cultures of Resistance: The New Labor Movement in Brazil 
by Maria Helena Moreira Alves
11. Youth, Politics, and Dictatorship in Uruguay 
by Carina Perelli
12. Strategies of the Literary Imagination 
by Beatriz Sarlo
13. Beyond Fear: Forms of Justice and Compensation 
by Emilio F. Mignone

PART FOUR. A LOOK AHEAD
14. Toward Societies without Fear 
by Juan E. Corradi

Index 

About the author

Juan E. Corradi is Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of The Fitful Republic: Economy, Society, and Politics in Argentina (1985). Patricia Weiss Fagen works for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in El Salvador and is the author of Exiles and Citizens: Spanish Republicans in Mexico (1973). Manuel Antonio Garretón is a member of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Santiago, Chile.

Summary

Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This title chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Juan E. Corradi, Juan E. Fagen Corradi
• Assisted by: Juan E. Corradi (Editor), Corradi Juan E. (Editor), Patricia Weiss Fagen (Editor), Manuel Antonio Garretó N. (Editor), Manuel Antonio Garretó N. (Editor), Manuel Antonio Garreton (Editor), Manuel Antonio Garretón (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1992
• EAN: 9780520077058
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07705-8
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; South America, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, Terrorism, armed struggle, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, c 1970 to c 1980, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989