DOCSLIB.ORG

Copyright by Celina Van Dembroucke 2010

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Copyright by Celina Van Dembroucke 2010 Copyright by Celina Van Dembroucke 2010 The Thesis Committee for Celina Van Dembroucke Certifies that this is the approved version of the following thesis: Absent Yet Still Present: Family Pictures in Argentina’s Recordatorios APPROVED BY SUPERVISING COMMITTEE: Supervisor: Andrea Giunta Naomi Lindstrom Absent Yet Still Present: Family Pictures in Argentina’s Recordatorios by Celina Van Dembroucke, Lic. Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts The University of Texas at Austin May 2010 Dedication Para mi tía Sylvia, que sobrevivió una época vertiginosa y apasionante. Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to thank my advisor, Andrea Giunta, for her kind words, thought-provoking comments to the manuscript, and smart suggestions. Also, thank you for your efforts in creating spaces for emerging scholars in meetings and debates and for treating me as if I were your colleague instead of your student. I am also enormously grateful to Naomi Lindstrom, my second reader, without whom I could never have completed the task of writing in a foreign language. With her knowledge, intellectual guidance and fantastic editing eye, she enhanced this thesis in so many ways. Gracias! Thanks to Elizabeth Jelin, who not only generously read the manuscript and gave me insightful feedback, but also accompanied me throughout this master from the very outset sharing her ideas and suggesting bibliography. Thanks to all who let me interview them and shared their time and stories with me, even if some of them are not named in this writing: Aurora Morea, Enriqueta Maroni, Aída Sarti, Alicia Furman, Estela Barnes de Carlotto, Gustavo Germano, Virginia Giannoni, Carlos González, María Eva Fuentes Walsh (qepd), Ana Paoletti, José Luis Meirás and Florencia Amnestoy. The artist and photographer Gustavo Germano kindly sent me the pictures that comprise his photographic exhibition, Ausencias . My friends Lindsay Adams and Amethyst Beaver helped me with the translation of several recordatorios. Also, many thanks to Laura Schenquer, another friend of mine, for always being ready to answer all my questions and for sharing resources. Thanks to Kimberly Terry and Henry Dietz from ILAS, for helping me solve several funding issues and for their support. v I am grateful both to Nicolás Casullo, who is no longer with us, for his generosity and to Alejandro Kaufman for his patience and advice. I am also indebted to my aunt Sylvia Viscay, who keeps collecting the recordatorios for me in Argentina and to whom I owe my broader interest in the memories of state repression. I owe special gratitude to my father, Daniel Van Dembroucke, for always supporting and helping me whenever I need it and to my mother, Mercedes Nuss, for keeping me updated in the field of literature, for her suggestions and illuminating comments. Finally, my husband Manuel Balán helped me in more ways that I can begin to explain. Not only did he patiently read and edited every single word that I have written since I arrived to Austin, but he also discussed and shared ideas, underlined quotes for me, helped me organize my thoughts. Thank you for being so generous! During the writing of this thesis I enjoyed his company, love and laughs. He became my security blanket and made all the difference. 5 May 2010 vi Abstract Absent Yet Still Present: Family Pictures in Argentina’s Recordatorios Celina Van Dembroucke, MA. The University of Texas at Austin, 2010 Supervisor: Andrea Giunta This study analyzes one of the most active memories of state repression during democracy in Argentina: the memorial advertisements ( recordatorios) of those disappeared by the most recent military dictatorship (1976-1983), which are published on a daily basis in the newspaper Página/12. In this thesis, I focus on the pictures of the victims of state repression that appear within the frame of these memorials as the expression of both cultural and personal memory. The leader of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, published the first recordatorio on the tenth anniversary of her daughter’s death, in August 1988. During that same year, 20 relatives of disappeared people went to the newspaper and followed Carlotto’s footsteps, publishing advertisements themselves. Currently, more vii than 20 years after the first advertisement was published, three to five recordatorios appear in the newspaper every day. The emergence of the recordatorios inaugurates a new discursive genre as contradictory as the disappearance itself. On the one hand, they are connected to the announcements related to the search for missing people (serving the goal of finding a person alive). On the other hand, the recordatorios also resemble obituaries (making a tribute to someone that has passed away). The recordatorio thus emerges as an impossible reality, following the logic of both genres, thus performing both functions in a paradoxical way. This study focuses on the family pictures that appear in the recordatorios and sheds light on how they illustrate the entanglement of the family and the public sphere, and contribute to the debate on the role of personal subjectivity in the construction of collective memory. From a multidisciplinary perspective, the present thesis aims to capture the complexity surrounding these texts and the familial imagery they include, looking at the inherent tension between the private tragedy of a family that has lost one of its members and the public character that stems from their publication in one of Argentina’s national newspapers. viii Table of Contents List of Figures ........................................................................................................ xi Introduction ..............................................................................................................1 Chapter I. Argentina: Reconstructing the Political Context ..................................10 1. The Dictatorship Takes over Power ..........................................................12 2. A Summary of the Argentine Revolutionary Organizations .....................14 3. The Dictatorship and its Repressive Policy ..............................................16 4. Who Did The Dictatorship Disappear? .....................................................20 5. The dictatorship’s last rasping breath .......................................................23 6. The Transition and Affirmation of Democracy ........................................25 7. Tracing Memories’ Trajectories and Different Versions of the Past ........31 8. A New Social Actor: The Human Rights Organizations ..........................34 9. Addressing the Disappearances in Culture ...............................................36 Chapter II: The Recordarios...................................................................................39 1.The First Recordatorios..............................................................................39 2.Dealing with the Publication of the Recordatorios ....................................44 3. Describing The Recordatorios ..................................................................47 4.The Recordatorios as a Contradiction in Terms ........................................57 5.A Demand For Justice ................................................................................63 Chapter III: Family Pictures in the Recordatorios .................................................69 1.Photography: A Medium For Memories ....................................................69 2.Familial and Bureaucratic Images .............................................................72 3.Portraits ......................................................................................................74 4.Family Pictures ..........................................................................................86 5.The Displacement of Once-happy Memories ..........................................103 6.The One and the Many .............................................................................109 ix Closure .................................................................................................................113 Works Cited .........................................................................................................125 Vita .....................................................................................................................146 x List of Figures Figure 1: Rec. Carlotto, Laura Estela. Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 25 Aug 1988. 8. 42 Figure 2 : Rec. Acuña Baravalle de Galizzi, Ana María. Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 27 Aug 1988. 4 43 Figure 3: Rec. Morresi, Norberto Julio and Luis María Roberto. Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 23 Apr 2005. 4. 49 Figure 4: Rec. Almeida, Alejandro Martín. Página/12 . Part of Virginia Giannoni’s exhibition. 50 Figure 5: Rec. Lombardi, Edgardo H. Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 11 Sept 2005. 53 Figure 6 : Rec. Castellini, María Eloisa and Petrakos, Constantino. Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 15 Apr 2007. 7 62 Figure 7 : Rec. Dricas, Benjamín Isaac . Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 30 Oct 2007. 7. 79 Figure 8: Rec. Goldstein, Mónica Liliana. Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 6 Oct 2007. 6. 81 Figure 9: Rec. Dorigo, Pablo Hermes . Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 20 Aug 2009.14. 83 Figure 10: Rec. Álvarez, Gerardo Julio. Página/12 [Buenos Aires] 21 Dec 2004. 6. 85 Figure 11: Rec. Maddalena, Patricia Rosana and Romero, Juan Ramón. Página/12 [Buenos Aires]. Part of Virginia Giannoni’s exhibition.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Juicio a Las Juntas Militares (Argentina)
    Juicio a las juntas militares (Argentina) The 1985 trial of the Argentinean Military Junta Members is an historical trial which saw the prosecution of the leaders of the three first Argentinean juntas of 1976 – 1983. The hearings were held from 22 April to 9 December 1985. Due to the large number of victims, the Court selected 280 emblematic cases among the 709 cases presented by the Prosecution. The Prosecutor’s closing argument, with its “ ¡ nuncas mas !”, remains historical. On 9 December 1985, the verdict stated that the Military Juntas had “developed and implemented a criminal plan to fight terrorism, leaving considerable discretion to the junior officers of the armed forces to imprison those who where described as ‘subversives’ by the intelligence services; to torture them; to subject them to inhumane living conditions; and ultimately to decide freely on the final fate of their victims: being transferred to the legal system (judiciary or police), being released, or being simply executed” (unofficial translation of an extract of the judgment). Jorge Rafael Videla and Emilio Eduardo Massera (first Junta) were sentenced to life imprisonment. Roberto Eduardo Viola (second Junta) was sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment, Armando Lambruschini (second Junta) to 8 years and Orlando Ramón Agosti (first Junta) to 4 years. Omar Graffigna (second Junta), Leopoldo Galtieri, Jorge Isaac Anaya et Basilio Lami Dozo (third Junta) were acquitted for lack of evidence. This trial is the first in South-America where former dictators were brought before judges by a democratic government. On 29 December 1990, Argentinean President Carlos Menen published Decree 2741/90 pardoning the accused sentenced during the 1985 trial.
    [Show full text]
  • Frautv Buchtipps 2008
    frauTV-Buchtipps 2010 16.12.2010 „DAS LÄCHELN DER FRAUEN“ Autor: Nicolas Barreau Verlag: Thiele, ISBN: 978-3851791440 Die Handlung: … fängt schon mal richtig gut an, mit den folgenden vier Sätzen: „Letztes Jahr im November hat ein Buch mein Leben gerettet. Ich weiß, das klingt jetzt sehr unwahrscheinlich. Manche mögen es gar für überspannt halten, wenn ich so etwas sage, oder melodramatisch. Und doch war es genauso!“ So beginnt die Geschichte von Aurelie, einer fröhlichen jungen Frau, der über Nacht der Freund abhanden kommt, weil er sich in eine andere verliebt. Alles schlimm, Aurelie todunglücklich. Bis zu dem Moment , als sie durch Zufall in einer kleinen Buchhandlung – die Geschichte spielt in Paris - ein Buch entdeckt, dessen erste Sätze genau sie, die schöne Aurelie beschreiben, ihr kleines Restaurant, ihr grünes Seidenkleid, ihr bezauberndes Lächeln. Aurelie vergisst den Liebeskummer, sie hat jetzt nur noch eines im Sinn: den englischen Autor dieses Buches, sie will ihn treffen und in ihr kleines Restaurant einladen. Das aber wird nicht passieren. Oder sagen wir so: es passiert anders als sie denkt. Ganz anders. Der Autor: Nicolas Barreau wurde ein Paris geboren, ist 30 Jahre alt, hat Romanistik und Geschichte studiert und arbeitet jetzt in einer Pariser Buchhandlung an der Rive Gauche. Dies ist sein drittes Buch, die beiden ersten sind auch fröhliche Liebesgeschichten. Die Bewertung: Ich muss an ein Souffle denken. Die Geschichte von Aurelie ist wie ein Souffle. Raffiniert zubereitet, zart und locker, aber man weiß, wie heimtückisch Souffles sein können. Sie fallen auch schon mal ganz gern ohne Vorwarnung in sich zusammen. Aber das passiert zum Glück nicht und genau das macht das Buch zu einer großen Freude.
    [Show full text]
  • The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo and Influences on International Recognition of Human Rights Organizations in Latin America
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by ETD - Electronic Theses & Dissertations The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and Influences on International Recognition of Human Rights Organizations in Latin America By Catherine Paige Southworth Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS in Latin American Studies December 15, 2018 Nashville, Tennessee Approved: W. Frank Robinson, Ph.D. Marshall Eakin, Ph.D. To my parents, Jay and Nancy, for their endless love and support ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First and foremost, I must express my appreciation and gratitude to the Grandmoth- ers of the Plaza de Mayo. These women were so welcoming during my undergraduate in- ternship experience and their willingness to share their stories will always be appreciated it. My time with the organization was fundamental to my development as a person as an aca- demic. This work would not have been possible without them. I am grateful everyone in the Center for Latin American Studies, who have all sup- ported me greatly throughout my wonderful five years at Vanderbilt. In particular, I would like to thank Frank Robinson, who not only guided me throughout this project but also helped inspire me to pursue this field of study beginning my freshman year. To Marshall Eakin, thank you for all of your insights and support. Additionally, a thank you to Nicolette Kostiw, who helped advise me throughout my time at Vanderbilt. Lastly, I would like to thank my parents, who have supported me unconditionally as I continue to pursue my dreams.
    [Show full text]
  • Redalyc.How History Shapes Memories in Autobiographical
    Social and Education History E-ISSN: 2014-3567 [email protected] Hipatia Press España Bietti, Lucas; Medina Audelo, Ricardo How history shapes memories in autobiographical narratives Social and Education History, vol. 1, núm. 3, septiembre-diciembre, 2012, pp. 222-247 Hipatia Press Barcelona, España Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317030571002 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative Instructions for authors, subscriptions and further details: http://hse.hipatiapress.com How History Shapes Memories in Autobiographical Narratives Lucas Bietti 1 & Ricardo Medina Audelo 2 1) Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen (KWI), Germany 2) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Date of publication: October 23rd, 2012 To cite this article: Bietti, L & Medina, R. (2012). How History Shapes Memories in Autobiographical Narratives. Social and Education History, 1(3), 222­247.doi:10.4471/hse.2012.15 To link this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.4471/hse.2012.15 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE The terms and conditions of use are related to the Open Journal System and to Creative Commons Non­Commercial and Non­Derivative License. HSE- Social and Education History Vol.1 !o.3 October 2012 pp. 222-247 How History Shapes Memories in Autobiographical Narratives Lucas Bietti Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen (KWI) Ricardo Medina Audelo Universitat Pompeu Fabra Abstract This article examines the interaction between the processes of autobiographical memory in relation to the military dictatorship of 1976-1983 in Argentina and the narrations constructed and communicated by these practices.
    [Show full text]
  • Abschlussarbeit Zur Erlangung Der Magistra Artium Im Fachbereich
    Abschlussarbeit Zur Erlangung der Magistra Artium im Fachbereich Neuere Philologien der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen Thema: Die Ästhetik von Identität und memoria in Félix Bruzzones Los topos 1. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Spiller 2. Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Wild vorgelegt von: Lela Weigt aus: Frankfurt am Main Einreichungsdatum: 29.02.2012 1. Einleitung .................................................................................................................... 1 2. Erinnerung und Identität ........................................................................................... 4 2.1 Identitätstheorien ...................................................................................................... 4 2.2 Narrative Identität .................................................................................................... 7 3. Literatur und Erinnerung .......................................................................................... 9 3.1 Die Entwicklung der Gedächtnisforschung ......................................................... 10 3.2 Gedächtnisforschung in der Literaturwissenschaft ............................................ 13 3.3 Die dreifache mimẽsis nach Ricœur ...................................................................... 15 4. Die neue Generation von Erinnernden ................................................................... 18 5. Los topos ....................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Achieving Justice for Victims of Human Rights Violations by South American Military Regimes Roseann M
    Boston College International and Comparative Law Review Volume 25 Issue 2 Symposium: Globalization & the Erosion of Article 12 Sovereignty in Honor of Professor Lichtenstein 5-1-2002 Coming Out of the Dark: Achieving Justice for Victims of Human Rights Violations by South American Military Regimes Roseann M. Latore Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr Part of the Human Rights Law Commons, International Law Commons, and the Military, War, and Peace Commons Recommended Citation Roseann M. Latore, Coming Out of the Dark: Achieving Justice for Victims of Human Rights Violations by South American Military Regimes , 25 B.C. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 419 (2002), http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/iclr/vol25/iss2/12 This Notes is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College International and Comparative Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. COMING OUT OF THE DARK: ACIDEVING JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS BY SOUTH AMERICAN MILITARY REGIMES RosEANN M. LAToRE* Abstract: The military regimes of the countries of the Southern Cone of South America cooperated under Operation Condor to eradicate all political opposition throughout the 1960s and 1970s. The military leaders of these regimes are only now being brought to justice for their crimes, which include widespread killing and "disappearances" of political opponents and, in Argentina, the stealing of babies born to doomed political dissidents. It is only in the last decade that these crimes have been brought to light so that the perpetrators can be brought to justice and nations deeply wounded can begin to heal.
    [Show full text]
  • The Politics of Torture in Great Britain, the United States, and Argentina, 1869-1977
    Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2014 Holes in the Historical Record: The olitP ics of Torture in Great Britain, the United States, and Argentina, 1869-1977 Lynsey Chediak Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Chediak, Lynsey, "Holes in the Historical Record: The oP litics of Torture in Great Britain, the United States, and Argentina, 1869-1977" (2014). CMC Senior Theses. Paper 875. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/875 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CLAREMONT McKENNA COLLEGE Holes in the Historical Record: The Politics of Torture in Great Britain, the United States, and Argentina, 1869-1977 SUBMITTED TO PROFESSOR LISA FORMAN CODY AND DEAN NICHOLAS WARNER BY LYNSEY CHEDIAK FOR SENIOR HISTORY THESIS SPRING 2014 April 28, 2014 Acknowledgments This thesis would not have been possible without the brilliant minds of my professors at Claremont McKenna College and the encouragement of my family. First, I would like to thank my reader and advisor, Professor Lisa Forman Cody. From my first day in her class, Professor Cody took what I was trying to say and made my statement, and me, sound ten times smarter. From that moment, I started to truly believe in the power of my ideas and a central tenet that made this thesis possible: there is no wrong answer in history, only evidence. Through countless hours of collaboration, Professor Cody spurred my ideas to levels I never could have imagined and helped me to develop my abilities to think critically and analytically of the historical record and the accuracy of sources.
    [Show full text]
  • Title of Thesis: ABSTRACT CLASSIFYING BIAS
    ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: CLASSIFYING BIAS IN LARGE MULTILINGUAL CORPORA VIA CROWDSOURCING AND TOPIC MODELING Team BIASES: Brianna Caljean, Katherine Calvert, Ashley Chang, Elliot Frank, Rosana Garay Jáuregui, Geoffrey Palo, Ryan Rinker, Gareth Weakly, Nicolette Wolfrey, William Zhang Thesis Directed By: Dr. David Zajic, Ph.D. Our project extends previous algorithmic approaches to finding bias in large text corpora. We used multilingual topic modeling to examine language-specific bias in the English, Spanish, and Russian versions of Wikipedia. In particular, we placed Spanish articles discussing the Cold War on a Russian-English viewpoint spectrum based on similarity in topic distribution. We then crowdsourced human annotations of Spanish Wikipedia articles for comparison to the topic model. Our hypothesis was that human annotators and topic modeling algorithms would provide correlated results for bias. However, that was not the case. Our annotators indicated that humans were more perceptive of sentiment in article text than topic distribution, which suggests that our classifier provides a different perspective on a text’s bias. CLASSIFYING BIAS IN LARGE MULTILINGUAL CORPORA VIA CROWDSOURCING AND TOPIC MODELING by Team BIASES: Brianna Caljean, Katherine Calvert, Ashley Chang, Elliot Frank, Rosana Garay Jáuregui, Geoffrey Palo, Ryan Rinker, Gareth Weakly, Nicolette Wolfrey, William Zhang Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Gemstone Honors Program, University of Maryland, 2018 Advisory Committee: Dr. David Zajic, Chair Dr. Brian Butler Dr. Marine Carpuat Dr. Melanie Kill Dr. Philip Resnik Mr. Ed Summers © Copyright by Team BIASES: Brianna Caljean, Katherine Calvert, Ashley Chang, Elliot Frank, Rosana Garay Jáuregui, Geoffrey Palo, Ryan Rinker, Gareth Weakly, Nicolette Wolfrey, William Zhang 2018 Acknowledgements We would like to express our sincerest gratitude to our mentor, Dr.
    [Show full text]
  • 180203 the Argentine Military and the Antisubversivo Genocide
    Journal: GSI; Volume 11; Issue: 2 DOI: 10.3138/gsi.11.2.03 The Argentine Military and the “Antisubversivo” Genocide DerGhougassian and Brumat The Argentine Military and the “Antisubversivo ” Genocide: The School of Americas’ Contribution to the French Counterinsurgency Model Khatchik DerGhougassian UNLa, Argentina Leiza Brumat EUI, Italy Abstract: The article analyzes role of the United States during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship and their genocidal counterinsurgency war in Argentina. We argue that Washington’s policy evolved from the initial loose support of the Ford administration to what we call “the Carter exception” in 1977—79 when the violation of Human Rights were denounced and concrete measures taken to put pressure on the military to end their repressive campaign. Human Rights, however, lost their importance on Washington’s foreign policy agenda with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the end of the Détente. The Argentine military briefly recuperated US support with Ronald Reagan in 1981 to soon lose it with the Malvinas War. Argentina’s defeat turned the page of the US support to military dictatorships in Latin America and marked the debut of “democracy promotion.” Keywords: Proceso, dirty war, human rights, Argentine military, French School, the School of the Americas, Carter Page 1 of 48 Journal: GSI; Volume 11; Issue: 2 DOI: 10.3138/gsi.11.2.03 Introduction: Framing the US. Role during the Proceso When an Argentine military junta seized the power on March 24, 1976 and implemented its “ plan antisubversivo ,” a supposedly counterinsurgency plan to end the political violence in the country, Henry Kissinger, the then United States’ Secretary of State of the Gerald Ford Administration, warned his Argentine colleague that the critiques for the violation of human rights would increment and it was convenient to end the “operations” before January of 1977 when Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate and winner of the presidential elections, would assume the power in the White House.
    [Show full text]
  • Book Review: Genocide As Social Practice: Reorganizing Society
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Scholar Commons | University of South Florida Research Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal Volume 9 | 2016 Issue 3 | Article 16 Book Review: Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas Martin Shaw Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Universities of Roehampton and Sussex Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp Recommended Citation Shaw, Martin (2016) "Book Review: Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas," Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 9: Iss. 3: 183-187. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.9.3.1393 Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol9/iss3/16 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal by an authorized editor of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Book Review: Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas Martin Shaw Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Universities of Roehampton and Sussex Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentina’s Military Juntas (Translated by Douglas Andrew Town) Daniel Feierstein Rutgers University Press, 2014 260 pp., US$ 29.95 (pbk) Reviewed by Martin Shaw Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, Universities of Roehampton and Sussex In this important new book, Daniel Feierstein presents a sociological reinterpretation of genocide based on the Argentine experience under the military junta.
    [Show full text]
  • 1. Nuevas Declaraciones Del Ex Dictador Jorge Rafael Videla 2
    OBSERVATORIO SUDAMERICANO DE DEFENSA Y FUERZAS ARMADAS INFORME ARGENTINA Nº. 11/2012 Período: del 14/04/2012 al 20/04/2012 Buenos Aires, Argentina 1. Nuevas declaraciones del ex dictador Jorge Rafael Videla 2. Pedidos de captura para acusados de la represión en el centro clandestino Pozo de Quilmes 3. Inicio de las indagatorias por la causa por violación de secretos políticos y militares 4. Declaraciones del oficial de Inteligencia del Ejército, Ernesto Barreiro, que protagonizó hace 25 años el alzamiento de Aldo Rico en la Semana Santa de 1987 5. Un ex soldado denuncia un fusilamiento realizado en 1977 en Formosa 6. La segunda megacausa por los crímenes cometidos en la Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA) comenzará en mayo 7. Se inicia un nuevo juicio por delitos de lesa humanidad cometidos en el Circuito ABO 8. Encuentro de los ministros de Defensa de Argentina y de Brasil 9. Se iniciará en junio un nuevo juicio en Mendoza 10. Confirman condenas para tres oficiales del Ejército 11. Primer testimonio en un juicio en Neuquén 12. Investigaciones de la Comisión de Estudio de Fenómenos Aeroespaciales, dependiente de la Fuerza Aérea 13. La Corte Suprema modifica un fallo sobre los haberes de los activos y retirados de las Fuerzas Armadas 1. El ex dictador Videla admitió que la dictadura asesinó a “siete mil u ocho mil personas” Tal como informaron Clarín, La Nación y Página/12, desde su calabozo, el ex dictador argentino Jorge Rafael Videla, admitió por primera vez que la dictadura que encabezó a partir del golpe de Estado de 1976 mató a “siete mil u ocho mil personas”, aunque los organismos de derechos humanos calculan que la cifra asciende a 30 mil: “Para no provocar protestas dentro y fuera del país, sobre la marcha se llegó a la decisión de que esa gente desapareciera; cada desaparición puede ser entendida como el enmascaramiento, el disimulo de una muerte”.
    [Show full text]
  • Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina’S 1976-1983 Dictatorship
    Performance, Kinship and Archives: Queering Acts of Mourning in the Aftermath of Argentina’s 1976-1983 Dictatorship Cecilia Sosa PhD in Drama Queen Mary, University of London January 2012 Abstract In the aftermath of Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976-1983), the organisations created by the relatives of the disappeared deployed the trope of a ‘wounded family’. The unspoken rule was that only those related by blood to the missing were entitled to ask for justice. This thesis queers this biological tradition. Drawing from performance studies and queer theory, it develops an alternative framework for understanding the transmission of trauma beyond bloodline inscriptions. It shows how grief brought into light an idea of community that exceeds traditional family ties. In order to demonstrate this, the thesis builds an archive of non-normative acts of mourning. This archive crosses different generations. The introduction utilises the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo’s statement ‘Our Children gave birth to us’ as the departure for a non-biological linage. Chapter 1 shows how the black humour that informs H.I.J.O.S., the association created by the children of the disappeared, works as a form of affective reparation in the face of loss. Chapter 2 proposes a dialogue between Los Rubios (Albertina Carri, 2003), M (Nicolás Prividera, 2007) and La mujer sin cabeza (Lucrecia Martel, 2008) to show how these films manage to displace the normative cult of the victim. Chapter 3 conceives the cooking sessions that take place at ESMA former detention camp as a form of conversion of this site of death.
    [Show full text]