Fear at the Edge

State Terror and Resistance in Latin America

Häftad, Engelska, 1992

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Beskrivning

Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. The contributors, primarily Latin American scholars, examine the deep sense of insecurity and the complex social psychology of people who live in authoritarian regimes. There is Argentina, where the brutal repression of the 1976 coup almost completely smothered individuals who might once have opposed government practices, and Uruguay, where the government forced the population into neutrality and isolation and cast a silent pall on everyday life. Accounts of repression and resistance in Chile and Brazil are also vividly presented. The denial and rationalization by citizens in all four countries can only be understood in the context of the generalized fear and confusion created by the violent military campaigns, which included abductions, torture, and disappearances of alleged terrorists. The recent transition to civilian rule in these countries has spotlighted their powerful legacy of fear.These important essays reveal disturbing insights into how fear is generated, legitimized, accommodated, and resisted among people living under totalitarian rule.

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Utgivningsdatum:1992-12-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:308
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520077058

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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 Garreton is a member of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Santiago, Chile.

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IntroductionFear: A Cultural and Political Constructby Juan E. Corradi, Patricia Weiss Fagen,and Manuel Antonio Garret6n PART ONE. FEAR AND AUTHORITARIANISM1. Fear in Military Regimes: An Overview by Manuel Antonio Garret6n2. Some People Die of Fear: Fear as a Political Problem by Norbert LechnerPART TWO. CONSTRUCTING CULTURES OF FEAR3. Repression and State Security by Patricia Weiss Fagen4. Victims of Fear: The Social Psychology of Repression by Sofia Salimovich, Elizabeth Lira, and Eugenia Weinstein5. Makers and Guardians of Fear: Controlled Terrorin Uruguay by Juan Rial6. Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum by Jean FrancoPART THREE. RESOURCES, STRATEGIES, AND CONSTRAINTS: FIGHTING FEAR7. Resistance to Fear in Chile: The Experience of the Vicaria de la Solidaridad by Hugo Fruhling8. Fear of the State, Fear of Society: On the Opposition Protests in Chile by Javier Martinez9. Testimonial Literature and the Armed Struggle in Brazil by Joan Dassin10. Cultures of Fear, Cultures of Resistance: The New Labor Movement in Brazil by Maria Helena Moreira Alves11. Youth, Politics, and Dictatorship in Uruguay by Carina Perelli12. Strategies of the Literary Imagination by Beatriz Sarlo13. Beyond Fear: Forms of Justice and Compensation by Emilio F. MignonePART FOUR. A LOOK AHEAD14. Toward Societies without Fear by Juan E. CorradiIndex