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The Resource Dissensual subjects : memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, Andrew C. Rajca

Dissensual subjects : memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, Andrew C. Rajca

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In Dissensual Subjects, Andrew C. Rajca combines cultural studies and critical theory to explore how the aftereffects of dictatorship have been used to formulate dominant notions of human rights in the present. In so doing, he critiques the exclusionary nature of these processes and highlights who and what count (and do not count) as subjects of human rights as a result.0Through an engaging exploration of the concept of "never again" (nunca más/nunca mais) and close analysis of photography exhibits, audiovisual installations, and other art forms in spaces of cultural memory, the book explores how aesthetic interventions can suggest alternative ways of framing human rights subjectivity beyond the rhetoric of liberal humanitarianism. The book visits sites of memory, two of which functioned as detention and torture centers during dictatorships, to highlight the tensions between the testimonial tenor of permanent exhibits and the aesthetic interventions of temporary installations there. Rajca thus introduces perspectives that both undo common understandings of authoritarian violence and its effects as well as reconfigure who or what are made visible as subjects of memory and human rights in postdictatorship countries
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
x, 254 pages
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Nunca mas/nunca mais : the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorial culture
  • Chapter 1. The politics and aesthetics of resistance : memory and subjectivity at the Memorial da Resistencia in São Paulo
  • Chapter 2. Melancholy and dissensus : postdictatorial subjectivity at the Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo
  • Chapter 4. The subjects of memory and human rights: aesthetics and politics and the Espacio para la Memoria y la Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos in Buenos Aires
  • Conclusion: Beyond the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorship
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9780810136373
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Dissensual subjects : memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
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Dissensual subjects
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memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
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Andrew C. Rajca
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
In Dissensual Subjects, Andrew C. Rajca combines cultural studies and critical theory to explore how the aftereffects of dictatorship have been used to formulate dominant notions of human rights in the present. In so doing, he critiques the exclusionary nature of these processes and highlights who and what count (and do not count) as subjects of human rights as a result.0Through an engaging exploration of the concept of "never again" (nunca más/nunca mais) and close analysis of photography exhibits, audiovisual installations, and other art forms in spaces of cultural memory, the book explores how aesthetic interventions can suggest alternative ways of framing human rights subjectivity beyond the rhetoric of liberal humanitarianism. The book visits sites of memory, two of which functioned as detention and torture centers during dictatorships, to highlight the tensions between the testimonial tenor of permanent exhibits and the aesthetic interventions of temporary installations there. Rajca thus introduces perspectives that both undo common understandings of authoritarian violence and its effects as well as reconfigure who or what are made visible as subjects of memory and human rights in postdictatorship countries
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Rajca, Andrew C
Dewey number
980.03
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
F2849.2
LC item number
.R327 2018
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Critical insurgencies
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  • Collective memory
  • Collective memory
  • Collective memory
  • Collective memory in art
  • Memorials
  • Memorials
  • Memorials
  • Dictatorship
  • Dictatorship
  • Dictatorship
  • Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
  • Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
  • Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
  • Human rights
  • Human rights
  • Human rights
  • 20.09 art in relation with other areas of culture: other
  • Collective memory
  • Collective memory in art
  • Dictatorship
  • Human rights
  • Memorials
  • Victims of state-sponsored terrorism
  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Uruguay
  • Diktatur
  • Kollektives Gedächtnis
  • Menschenrecht
  • Politische Verfolgung
  • Vergangenheitsbewältigung
  • Argentinien
  • Brasilien
  • Uruguay
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Dissensual subjects : memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, Andrew C. Rajca
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Nunca mas/nunca mais : the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorial culture -- Chapter 1. The politics and aesthetics of resistance : memory and subjectivity at the Memorial da Resistencia in São Paulo -- Chapter 2. Melancholy and dissensus : postdictatorial subjectivity at the Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo -- Chapter 4. The subjects of memory and human rights: aesthetics and politics and the Espacio para la Memoria y la Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: Beyond the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorship
Control code
982091627
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
x, 254 pages
Isbn
9780810136373
Lccn
2017039350
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40027924433
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)982091627
Label
Dissensual subjects : memory, human rights, and postdictatorship in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, Andrew C. Rajca
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction -- Nunca mas/nunca mais : the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorial culture -- Chapter 1. The politics and aesthetics of resistance : memory and subjectivity at the Memorial da Resistencia in São Paulo -- Chapter 2. Melancholy and dissensus : postdictatorial subjectivity at the Centro Cultural y Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo -- Chapter 4. The subjects of memory and human rights: aesthetics and politics and the Espacio para la Memoria y la Promocion y Defensa de los Derechos Humanos in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: Beyond the ethical fusion of memory and human rights in postdictatorship
Control code
982091627
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
x, 254 pages
Isbn
9780810136373
Lccn
2017039350
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40027924433
Other physical details
illustrations
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)982091627

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