Stern Steve J. Stern

Reckoning with Pinochet (eBook, PDF)

The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006

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Produktbeschreibung

Reckoning with Pinochet is the first comprehensive account of how Chile came to terms with General Augusto Pinochet's legacy of human rights atrocities. An icon among Latin America's "e;dirty war"e; dictators, Pinochet had ruled with extreme violence while building a loyal social base. Hero to some and criminal to others, the general cast a long shadow over Chile's future. Steve J. Stern recounts the full history of Chile's democratic reckoning, from the negotiations in 1989 to chart a post-dictatorship transition; through Pinochet's arrest in London in 1998; the thirtieth anniversary, in 2003, of the coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende; and Pinochet's death in 2006. He shows how transnational events and networks shaped Chile's battles over memory, and how the Chilean case contributed to shifts in the world culture of human rights.Stern's analysis integrates policymaking by elites, grassroots efforts by human rights victims and activists, and inside accounts of the truth commissions and courts where top-down and bottom-up initiatives met. Interpreting solemn presidential speeches, raucous street protests, interviews, journalism, humor, cinema, and other sources, he describes the slow, imperfect, but surprisingly forceful advance of efforts to revive democratic values through public memory struggles, despite the power still wielded by the military and a conservative social base including the investor class. Over time, resourceful civil-society activists and select state actors won hard-fought, if limited, gains. As a result, Chileans were able to face the unwelcome past more honestly, launch the world's first truth commission to examine torture, ensnare high-level perpetrators in the web of criminal justice, and build a public culture of human rights. Stern provides an important conceptualization of collective memory in the wake of national trauma in this magisterial work of history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822391777
• Artikelnr.: 54930868

Autorenporträt

Steve J. Stern is the Alberto Flores Galindo Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of books including Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1988, winner of the Bolton-Johnson Prize (the Conference on Latin American History), and Remembering Pinochet’s Chile: On the Eve of London 1998. Both books received Honorable Mention, Bryce Wood Book Award (Latin American Studies Association). Both are also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xiii
Maps xviii
Introduction to the Trilogy: The Memory Box of Pinochet's Chile xxi
Introduction to Book Three: Reckoning with Pinochet 1
1. The Perils of Truth: Opening the Memory Box, 1989–1990 13
Afterword: "My Dear President" 61
2. Toward Memory Impasse? The Truth Commission Moment, 1990–1991 65
Afterword: The Futility of History? 99
3. The Circle of Truth, Justice, and Force, 1990–1994 106
Afterword: The Sound of Tick-Tock 136
4. Between Prudence and Convulsion: Memory, Triumphalism, and
Disenchantment, 1994–1997 143
Afterword: The Joys of "Not Too Much" 200
5. The Turn: Consequences of 1998 211
Afterword: Covering History with History? The Making of Silence 265
6. Memory as Unfinished Work: New Reckonings, 2002–2006 273
Afterword: Unsettled Moments: The Struggle for Londres 38 314
7. Reframing Democratic Transition: Toward the Memory Paradox of Bachelet's
Chile 324
Afterword: The Curious Burial of Augusto Pinochet 348
Conclusion: Reckoning with Pinochet 357
Abbreviations Used in Notes and Essay on Sources 387
Notes 389
Essay on Sources 503
Index 525