Description
Book SynopsisDespite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This title chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Fear: A Cultural and Political Construct
by Juan E. Corradi, Patricia Weiss Fagen,
and Manuel Antonio Garret6n
PART ONE. FEAR AND AUTHORITARIANISM
1. Fear in Military Regimes: An Overview
by Manuel Antonio Garret6n
2. Some People Die of Fear: Fear as a Political Problem
by Norbert Lechner
PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING CULTURES OF FEAR
3. Repression and State Security
by Patricia Weiss Fagen
4. Victims of Fear: The Social Psychology of Repression
by Sofia Salimovich, Elizabeth Lira, and Eugenia Weinstein
5. Makers and Guardians of Fear: Controlled Terror
in Uruguay by Juan Rial
6. Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum
by Jean Franco
PART THREE. RESOURCES, STRATEGIES, AND CONSTRAINTS: FIGHTING FEAR
7. Resistance to Fear in Chile: The Experience of the Vicaria de la Solidaridad
by Hugo Fruhling
8. Fear of the State, Fear of Society: On the Opposition Protests in Chile
by Javier Martinez
9. Testimonial Literature and the Armed Struggle in Brazil
by Joan Dassin
10. Cultures of Fear, Cultures of Resistance: The New Labor Movement in Brazil
by Maria Helena Moreira Alves
11. Youth, Politics, and Dictatorship in Uruguay
by Carina Perelli
12. Strategies of the Literary Imagination
by Beatriz Sarlo
13. Beyond Fear: Forms of Justice and Compensation
by Emilio F. Mignone
PART FOUR. A LOOK AHEAD
14. Toward Societies without Fear
by Juan E. Corradi
Index
