Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973-1990

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

In this richly detailed history, Felix Jiménez Botta traces West German mobilization against human rights abuses in Latin America in the late twentieth century. Initially in the ascendant was a market-critical vision adopted by a loose, left-leaning coalition fighting against right-wing regimes seeking to destroy incipient welfare states and implant market fundamentalism. However, during the later 1970s-80s a market-friendly interpretation gained ground, emphasising negative civil and political rights at the expense of positive economic and social rights. Within these debates, the vocabulary of human rights was a malleable political language that served as a multidirectional point of reference for various actors from civil society, politics, and the churches. By analysing these opposing views of human rights, Jiménez Botta questions the revisionist interpretation of post-1970s human rights as an inherently conservative political and intellectual project. Instead, the triumph of market-friendly human rights in West Germany was contested, contingent and ultimately unfinished.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:718 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Human Rights in History
Antal sidor:378
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009473828

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Felix A. Jiménez Botta is Associate Professor of History at Miyazaki International University, Japan. He is the editor of a special issue entitled 'The Multiple Meanings of Human Rights in Germany' in the Journal of Contemporary History (2025).

Recensioner i media

'Jiménez Botta has revealed a vital alternative history to the presumed triumph of neoliberalism in our modern era. This book is a must read for those interested in how a human rights movement for social justice and economic redistribution survived in the late Cold War and beyond.' Ned Richardson-Little, ZZF Potsdam

Innehållsförteckning

List of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction; 1. Antifascism: the Chile solidarity movement in West Germany and the politics of emergency, 1973– 1976; 2. The politics of emergency in action: West Germany and the Latin American refugee crisis, 1973–1977; 3. Christian democratic solidarity: West German conservatives and the Chilean military regime, 1973–1980; 4. Quiet diplomacy: Argentina, Chile, and West Germany's technocratic response to grassroots human rights advocacy, 1975–1979; 5 . Politics of revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, and the rise of market-critical human rights in West Germany, 1977–1986; 6. Market-Friendly human rights: the neoconservative offensive on Central America, 1979–1986; 7. The politics of market-friendly democratization: West Germany and the end of military rule in the Southern Cone, 1980–1990; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.