Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America
In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional—it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation.
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Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America
Michelle Frances Carmody
Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and the Reconstruction of Political Order in Latin America
Michelle Frances Carmody University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
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Acknowledgements
No book or any project can be conducted without large amounts of assistance, some of it directly obvious and some of it more hidden. I will attempt here to recall the many who over the years have offered invaluable assistance. This book began its life as my doctoral research project, which was conducted within the Latin American Studies program at La Trobe University, Melbourne. My doctoral supervisors Claudia Haake and Roland Burke provided possibly the most invaluable support and assistance throughout the project. Many years later, and now having supervised students and juggled a workload of my own, I appreciate their help more than ever. Barry Carr provided support in his role as supervisor at an earlier stage of the project, introducing me to the fields of testimony and memory studies, and he has proven to be a continuing support in the years that have followed. Others at La Trobe who played an important role both in the research project directly and in my own development more generally incl
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