The Struggle for the Past : : How We Construct Social Memories / / Elizabeth Jelin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Jelin, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Worlds of Memory ; 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Perspectives on the Past: Conflictive and Never-Ending --; Chapter 2. Building a Research Field: Memory and Gender in Latin American Social Sciences --; Chapter 3. Explorations, Certainties, and Uncertainties: Th e Human Rights Movement and Building Democracy in Argentina --; Chapter 4. Markers of Memory: Dates, Places, Archives --; Chapter 5. Victims, Relatives, or Citizens? Whose Voices Are Legitimate Enough? --; Chapter 6. Sexual Abuse as a Crime against Humanity and the Right to Privacy --; Chapter 7. Taking the Floor: Testimonial Voices over Time --; Chapter 8. Memory—for What? Toward a More Democratic Future --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789207835; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789207835?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elizabeth Jelin.

In all societies—but especially those that have endured political violence—the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around the Argentine experience since the 1970s within the broader context of the Southern Cone and international developments, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization, it gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field of inquiry, lucidly recounting the author’s own intellectual and personal journey during these decades.