Unsettling Accounts - Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Focuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa. Zusammenfassung Focusing on various confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence, this book questions what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. It also focuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa. 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

Product details

• Authors: Leigh a. Payne, Payne, Leigh A Payne, Leigh A. Payne
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2008
• EAN: 9780822340614
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4061-4
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole; The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories