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Unsettling Accounts
Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence
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Leigh A. Payne
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Edited by:
Neil L. Whitehead
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English
Published/Copyright:
2008
About this book
Focuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa.
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
“Unsettling Accounts is an extremely valuable contribution to social science scholarship. Leigh A. Payne’s complex and nuanced analysis of when, why, and how perpetrators confess is far more sophisticated than any other research that I know about.”—Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
“Unsettling Accounts is unique in transitional justice literature in its extended focus on individual perpetrators and on confessions. Leigh A. Payne links individual stories to some of the most pressing questions in transitional justice scholarship.”—Kathryn Sikkink, author of Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America
“This text is productive and can be used in a range of comparative politics, international relations, performance studies, and transitional justice courses of all levels. It contributes valuable methodological insights that are conducive to renovating academia, activist, and policy communities’ theoretical engagements with violence. Payne’s text encourages the reader to consider deeper theorizations of violence and survival within the frameworks of the state.”
-- Heather M. Turcotte International Studies Review
“Beyond its potential for underscoring the polemics involved in national reconciliation after state violence, this is a profound work because of its comparative, multidimensional, detailed, and nuanced analysis of what permeates post-conflict societies. Those who will benefit most from this volume are students of peace and conflict studies, practitioners, and general readers. The book is both thought-provoking and engaging in terms of its details and very useful framework.”
-- Earl Conteh-Morgan American Historical Review
“Payne provides a rich and original perspective on these historical processes in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and South Africa through a detailed analysis of the confessions of individuals responsible for past state violence.”
-- Alexander Wilde A Contracorriente
“This book makes a significant contribution to the fields of transitional justice and democratization by examining what happens when the institutional silence and denial of past crimes is broken by individuals. Payne’s important point here is that, whatever the motivations of the perpetrator who confesses, the stories open up debate and help challenge the political consensus of supporters of the past repressive regime.”
-- Michael Humphrey American Journal of Sociology
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 11, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9780822390435
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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392
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22 illustrations
