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UCLA

1. Bivona, Kristal Robin. Transitional Justice in Post-Dictatorship South American Film.

Degree: Portuguese, 2019, UCLA

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/14w6n4cr

► This dissertation considers theory from the field of Memory Studies to compare the relationships between transitional justice, cultural production, and discourses on state terror and… (more)

▼ This dissertation considers theory from the field of Memory Studies to compare the relationships between transitional justice, cultural production, and discourses on state terror and human rights. The most recent civic-military dictatorships in Brazil (1964-1985), Uruguay (1973-1985), and Argentina (1976-1983) remain unresolved histories in the collective imaginaries of each country. The fields of literary and media studies often point to the cultural production that represents this period as contributing to the construction of memory, and, therefore, against impending oblivion. My dissertation moves beyond the binary logic of remembrance and oblivion to analyze the ways in which cultural production shapes our understanding of the dictatorships and their aftermath. Chapter 1, “The Survivor on Screen: Film in Post-dictatorship Brazil,” focuses on the films Que bom te ver viva (L�cia Murat, 1989), A��o entre amigos (Beto Brant, 1998), and Hoje (Tata Amaral, 2011) to understand the extent to which they reinforce or reject the notion that the only people affected by the dictatorship were the militants who took up arms against the regime. Chapter 2, “Unfinished Stories: Film in Post-Dictatorship Uruguay,” analyzes the films Zanahoria (Enrique Buchichio, 2014), Matar a todos (Esteban Schroeder, 2007), and Secretos de lucha (Maiana Bidegain, 2007), which all depict the past as unresolved. Each of these films has an inconclusive ending, implying that Uruguayan transitional justice is yet to come. Chapter 3, “Towards Inclusive Victimhood and Memory: Post-dictatorship Film in Argentina,” analyzes Cautiva (Gast�n Biraben, 2003), Los Rubios (Albertina Carri, 2003), and Buenos Aires Viceversa (Alejandro Agresti, 1996) as examples of works that challenge the canonized memories of the dictatorship as well as the widely accepted notions of victimhood, pushing for the consideration of traditionally excluded subjectivities. This chapter addresses the intergenerational struggle over memory and the victims of economic crises in the post-dictatorship. This dissertation investigates the impact that political and legal frameworks have on filmmaking, on storytelling, and on how the past is remembered, contributing to research on the intersection between memory studies, transitional justice, and the cultural field.

Subjects/Keywords: Latin American studies; Film studies; Argentina; Brazil; Film; Post-Dictatorship; Transitional Justice; Uruguay

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APA (6^th Edition):

Bivona, K. R. (2019). Transitional Justice in Post-Dictatorship South American Film. (Thesis). UCLA. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/14w6n4cr

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bivona, Kristal Robin. “Transitional Justice in Post-Dictatorship South American Film.” 2019. Thesis, UCLA. Accessed March 07, 2021. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/14w6n4cr.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bivona, Kristal Robin. “Transitional Justice in Post-Dictatorship South American Film.” 2019. Web. 07 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Bivona KR. Transitional Justice in Post-Dictatorship South American Film. [Internet] [Thesis]. UCLA; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 07]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/14w6n4cr.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Bivona KR. Transitional Justice in Post-Dictatorship South American Film. [Thesis]. UCLA; 2019. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/14w6n4cr

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

2. Seidel, Katja. The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina.

Degree: 2014, RIAN

URL: http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/

► For 30 years human rights groups have struggled for justice in Argentina. ‘We are born in their struggle and they live in ours’, thus goes… (more)

▼ For 30 years human rights groups have struggled for justice in Argentina. ‘We are born in their struggle and they live in ours’, thus goes the mantra of the second generation activists. In 1995, hijos, the children of the disappeared, murdered, unlawfully imprisoned and exiled victims of the 1976-83 civil-military dictatorship, decided to participate and created the association H.I.J.O.S. (Children for Identity and Justice, against Oblivion and Silence). Coming to the field in 2010, I arrived into a context radicalized through activism, campaigning, and a heightened level of legal activity in a temporality of post-transitional, pro-human rights. In this symbolic, discursive, and legal space of justice members of H.I.J.O.S. demonstrate why the violent past counts as genocide and promise not to forgive, not to forget, nor to reconcile. With their activism during the Escrache – H.I.J.O.S.’ practice of social condemnation and street justice – and in the current trials for crimes against humanity, the second generation strives to recover their disappeared parents’ political identity and create their own belonging from absence. This thesis presents a detailed ethnographic reading of the dynamics of justice in posttransitional Argentina. Pursuant to complex and sometimes conflicting research on the nature of these concepts, this thesis focuses thus on the meaning and impact of H.I.J.O.S.’ struggle over the past 18 years. The theoretical cornerstone of the work is an interrogation of the way in which post-memories are constructed, lived, and negotiated by members of the second generation thereby a demonstration of the productive quality of genocide and absence that bears new ontologies and political subjectivities. In holding an ethnographic mirror up to these experiences and hijos’ political agency, this thesis goes beyond prevailing studies of transitional justice and genocide and explores the productivity and creative power of violence unleashed by activated post memories. With the concept of ‘absence’ as a motor for justice this thesis shows how hijos use their post memories to subvert a traumatic heritage and regain ownership of justice.

Subjects/Keywords: Anthropology; Power of Absence Ethnography of Justice; Genocide; Political Activism; New Generation; Post-Transitional Argentina

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APA (6^th Edition):

Seidel, K. (2014). The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina. (Thesis). RIAN. Retrieved from http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Seidel, Katja. “The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina.” 2014. Thesis, RIAN. Accessed March 07, 2021. http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Seidel, Katja. “The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina.” 2014. Web. 07 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Seidel K. The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina. [Internet] [Thesis]. RIAN; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 07]. Available from: http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Seidel K. The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina. [Thesis]. RIAN; 2014. Available from: http://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

3. Seidel, Katja. The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina.

Degree: 2014, RIAN

URL: http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/

► For 30 years human rights groups have struggled for justice in Argentina. ‘We are born in their struggle and they live in ours’, thus goes… (more)

▼ For 30 years human rights groups have struggled for justice in Argentina. ‘We are born in their struggle and they live in ours’, thus goes the mantra of the second generation activists. In 1995, hijos, the children of the disappeared, murdered, unlawfully imprisoned and exiled victims of the 1976-83 civil-military dictatorship, decided to participate and created the association H.I.J.O.S. (Children for Identity and Justice, against Oblivion and Silence). Coming to the field in 2010, I arrived into a context radicalized through activism, campaigning, and a heightened level of legal activity in a temporality of post-transitional, pro-human rights. In this symbolic, discursive, and legal space of justice members of H.I.J.O.S. demonstrate why the violent past counts as genocide and promise not to forgive, not to forget, nor to reconcile. With their activism during the Escrache – H.I.J.O.S.’ practice of social condemnation and street justice – and in the current trials for crimes against humanity, the second generation strives to recover their disappeared parents’ political identity and create their own belonging from absence. This thesis presents a detailed ethnographic reading of the dynamics of justice in posttransitional Argentina. Pursuant to complex and sometimes conflicting research on the nature of these concepts, this thesis focuses thus on the meaning and impact of H.I.J.O.S.’ struggle over the past 18 years. The theoretical cornerstone of the work is an interrogation of the way in which post-memories are constructed, lived, and negotiated by members of the second generation thereby a demonstration of the productive quality of genocide and absence that bears new ontologies and political subjectivities. In holding an ethnographic mirror up to these experiences and hijos’ political agency, this thesis goes beyond prevailing studies of transitional justice and genocide and explores the productivity and creative power of violence unleashed by activated post memories. With the concept of ‘absence’ as a motor for justice this thesis shows how hijos use their post memories to subvert a traumatic heritage and regain ownership of justice.

Subjects/Keywords: Anthropology; Power of Absence Ethnography of Justice; Genocide; Political Activism; New Generation; Post-Transitional Argentina

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APA (6^th Edition):

Seidel, K. (2014). The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina. (Thesis). RIAN. Retrieved from http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Seidel, Katja. “The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina.” 2014. Thesis, RIAN. Accessed March 07, 2021. http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Seidel, Katja. “The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina.” 2014. Web. 07 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Seidel K. The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina. [Internet] [Thesis]. RIAN; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 07]. Available from: http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Seidel K. The Power of Absence: An Ethnography of Justice, Memories of Genocide, and Political Activism of a New Generation in Post-Transitional Argentina. [Thesis]. RIAN; 2014. Available from: http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/5612/

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

York University

4. Rita-Procter, Steven James. Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities.

Degree: PhD, English, 2019, York University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35855

► This doctoral dissertation, Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: the Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities, examines the extent to which the… (more)

▼ This doctoral dissertation, Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: the Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities, examines the extent to which the success and feasibility of human rights tribunals and truth commissions are dependent upon the ways in which the past is narrativized in State-sponsored legal reports and subsequently promulgated through the stories we tell. Juxtaposing three historical cases that have constituted transitional justice according to divergent ideological paths, Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice compares and cross-references the final reports on three high-profile transitional justice cases: the Nuremberg tribunals (1945-49), the Argentine Trial of the Juntas (1985), and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2008-15), to study the ways in which these reports have shaped the collective or national memories of various historical traumas. The dissertation examines how the final reports on truth commissions and war crimes tribunals deploy a highly sophisticated set of rhetorical and narratological techniques in order to fix a single, specific version of historical events in the cultural memories with disparate aims in bringing together a fractured nation. By highlighting the significant degree of artistry that go into preparing these reports, it examines how and why transitional governments are often motivated to frame historical violence in order to elicit collective feelings of outrage, shame, guilt, or forgiveness. Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice thereby illustrates how transitional justice practices mobilize blueprints for reconciliation, restoration, or retribution through the recovery and narrativization of traumatic memories, and how these respective sentiments have facilitated the implementation of subsequent political and economic policies by the transitional governments. A key aspect of this analysis centeres on the unique ability of final reports to contextualize national traumas by designating precisely which crimes were committed, by and against whom, by regulating whose testimony is to be included and/or excluded from the master narrative, and by articulating the appropriate measure of justice that ought to be faced by the perpetrators. As the apotheosis of the transitional justice process, my research demonstrates that truth commission reports not only present their mercurial and highly contentious histories as binding, legally-validated, and irrefutably fixed versions of a series of often dubious events, but they also effectively situate each citizen within the victim/perpetrator and innocent/guilty binary ethical paradigms upon which the judicial system is grounded. Negotiating the final reports on truth commissions and human rights tribunals as historical non-fiction texts, these case studies weigh their reports alongside other vehicles of cultural storytelling (including historical novels, films, ballets, etc.). Advisors/Committee Members: Creet, Magdalene Julia (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: International law; Transitional Justice; Legal History; Nuremberg; War Crimes; Truth and Reconciliation; Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Human Rights; Ernesto Sabato; Argentine Trial of the Juntas; Collective Guilt; Collective Memory; Reconciliation; Trauma Studies; Trauma and Memory; Cultural Memory; Cultural Analysis; War Crimes Tribunals; Argentina; Germany; Canada; Kent Monkman; Scopiphilia; Voyeurism; Amnesty; Narratology; Hannah Arendt; Karl Jaspers; Maurice Halbwachs; Osvaldo Soriano; Manuel Puig; León Ferrari; Telford Taylor; Punitive justice; Restorative justice; Die Zeit; Heinrich Böll; Günter Grass; Siegfried Lenz; Bertolt Brecht; Peter Weiss; Abby Mann; Judgment at Nuremberg; Dirty War; CONADEP; Nunca Más; Rodolpho Walsh; Two Demons; Jeff Barnaby; Rhymes for Young Ghouls; Mariana Enríquez; Patricio Pron; Juan Gelman; Néstor Kirchner; Raúl Alfonsín; Denazification; Indian Residential Schools; Indian Residential School System; Transformative Justice; International Criminal Justice; Amnesties; Post-Dictatorship; Desaparecidos; Disappeared

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APA (6^th Edition):

Rita-Procter, S. J. (2019). Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities. (Doctoral Dissertation). York University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35855

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Rita-Procter, Steven James. “Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, York University. Accessed March 07, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35855.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Rita-Procter, Steven James. “Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities.” 2019. Web. 07 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Rita-Procter SJ. Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. York University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 07]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35855.

Council of Science Editors:

Rita-Procter SJ. Narratology, Rhetoric, and Transitional Justice: The Function of Narrative in Redressing the Legacy of Mass Atrocities. [Doctoral Dissertation]. York University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/35855

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