Cristina Buarque de Hollanda is a research fellow and adjunct associate professor of political science at New York University Abu Dhabi, and an associate professor of political science at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She is the author of Teoria das elites and Modos da representacao politica: O experiment da Primeira Republica brasileira. Jose Szwako is a professor of sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He is the coauthor of Dicionario dos negacionismos no Brasil and Movimentos sociais e institucionalizacao: Politicas sociais, raca e genero no Brasil pos-transicao.
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Introduction Part I: Forgetting 1. Scenes, Alliances, and Actors at the Roots of the Transition 2. The "Mean-Spirited" Amnesty and Platforms of Forgetting 3. From Forgetfulness to Publicity: Fear, Hope, and Punishment in the 1980s Part II: Remembering 4. Toward the Special Commission on Political Dead and Disappeared: Steps and Countersteps in Remembering the Past 5. The Political Roots of the Memory Turn: The Amnesty Commission and the Enduring Barriers to Remembering Part III: Celebrating 6. Politics and Policies of Remembering: The National Truth Commission and Commissionism 7. Human Rights in Dispute: Celebrating the Violent Past Conclusions Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Acronyms Timeline Cast of Characters Notes Index