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Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America

A Janus-Faced Paradigm?
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Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America presents a nuanced and evidence-based discussion of both the acceptance and co-optation of the transitional justice framework and its potential abuses in the context of the struggle to keep the memory of the past alive and hold perpetrators accountable within Latin America and beyond. The contributors argue that "transitional justice"-understood as both a conceptual framework shaping discourses and a set of political practices-is a Janus-faced paradigm. Historically it has not always advanced but often hindered attempts to achieve historical memory and seek truth and justice. This raises the vital question: what other theoretical frameworks can best capture legacies of human rights crimes? Providing a historical view of current developments in Latin America's reckoning processes, Legacies of State Violence and Transitional Justice in Latin America reflects on the meaning of the paradigm's reception: what are the broader political and social consequences of supporting, appropriating, or rejecting the transitional justice paradigm?
Introduction: Whose Transition? Whose Voices?: Latin American Responses to Transitional Justice, Nina Schneider and Marcia Esparza Part I. Argentina Chapter 1: "What Do You Mean by Transitional Justice?": Local Perspectives on Human Rights Trials in Argentina, Rosario Figari Layus Part II. Brazil Chapter 2: The Scope and Limits of the Discourse on "Transitional Justice" in Brazil, Edson Teles and Renan H. Quinalha Chapter 3: Transitional Justice from the Margins: Legal Mobilization and Memory Politics in Brazil, Cecilia MacDowell Santos Part III. El Salvador Chapter 4: Toward Reconsidering the Root Causes of Violence: Free Trade, Mining, and Transitional Justice in Central America, Steve Dobransky Part IV. Peru Chapter 5: First Empowerment, then Disillusion: The Ambivalent Legacy of the Transitional Justice Framework in Local Peru, Laura Tejero Tabernero Chapter 6: How Transitional is Justice?: Peru's Post-Conflict Revisited, Jose Pablo Baraybar, Jesus Pena, and Percy Rojas Part V. Uruguay Chapter 7: Uruguay and the Reconceptualization of Transitional Justice, Debbie Sharnak Part VI. Latin America Chapter 8: Concluding Reflections, Roberto Gargarella
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