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Book Synopsis Bringing together some of the world’s leading scholars, practitioners, and human-rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012–2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. While attentive to the inquiry’s local and national dimensions, it offers an illuminating transnational perspective that considers the Commission’s Latin American regional context and relates it to global efforts for human rights accountability, contributing to a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of viewpoints.
Trade Review “This is a very timely and relevant volume that gives an extraordinarily broad overview of the Brazilian Truth Commission and its broader political and social context. Particularly exciting are the rich insights the volume yields into the complex and ambiguous interactions between the National Truth Commission in Brazil and the many local truth commissions that were created parallel to it.” • Berber Bevernage, Ghent University
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Brazilian Truth Commission in Local, National and Global Perspective
Nina Schneider
PART I: THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL TRUTH COMMISSION
Section 1: Emergence and Context
Chapter 1. Dear Madame President: A Never-delivered Speech and a Never-ending Story
Vera Paiva
Chapter 2. The Public Prosecutors’ Office of Sao Paulo and the Legacy of the Dictatorship: A Brief Report on Activities Prior to the Truth Commission
Eugenia Gonzaga
Chapter 3. The Censorship of History and Fact-Finding in Brazil (1945−2015)
Antoon De Baets
Chapter 4. Democratic Transition and Conciliation: Human Rights and the Legacy of the Dictatorship in Brazil
Janaina de Almeida Teles
Section 2: Novelties of the Brazilian Model: Local Committees and Corporate Complicity
Chapter 5. The National Truth Commission (NTC): Truth and Responsibility
Carolina de Campos Melo and Andre Saboia Martins
Chapter 6. Repression, Resistance and the intergenerational Dialogue: Establishing a Truth Commission at the University of Brasília
Jose Otavio Nogueira Guimarães and Cristiano Paixao Paixão
Chapter 7. Truth Commissions in the Digital Age: An Analysis of the Brazilian Case
Ana Migowski
Chapter 8. Corporate Complicity in the Brazilian Dictatorship
Leigh A. Payne
Chapter 9. Volkswagen do Brasil During the Military Dictatorship: An Economic and Political Assessment
Christopher Kopper
Section 3: First Assessments of Brazil’s National Truth Commission
Chapter 10. The Outcomes of the Brazilian Truth Commission: Successes and Failures in a Lengthy Transitional Justice Process
Marlon Weichert
Chapter 11. The Struggle for the Voice of the Victims in the National Truth Commission (Brazil): Memories and Truth yesterday and today
San Romanelli Assumpção
Chapter 12. ‘Nunca Mais’: Lessons from Brazil’s Dictatorial Past
Gisele Iecker de Almeida
PART II: TRUTH COMMISSIONS IN CONTEXT: COMPARING LATIN AMERICA
Section 4: Comparing Specific Truth Commissions
Chapter 13. Truth Commissions and their Archives in El Salvador, Peru, and Brazil
Ann Schneider
Chapter 14. Memory, Truth, and Auto-Fiction in the Recent Latin American Novel
Jobst Welge
PART III: TRUTH COMMISSIONS BETWEEN THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL
Section 5. Truth Commissions’ Worldwide Dispersion and Function
Chapter 15. Reconfigurations of Transitional Justice in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings Global, Regional and Local Developments
Fatima Kastner
Chapter 16. Truth Commissions: A Bottom Up Approach to Institution Building
Anja Mihr
Afterword
Nina Schneider
Appendix I: List of Selected Local Truth Commissions in Brazil by Region and State
Appendix II: Selected List of Brazilian Online Resources (Alphabetical Order)
Appendix III: Photos from The Brazilian Truth Commission
Index
