{"product_id":"the-struggle-for-the-past-how-we-construct-social-memories-9781789207828","title":"The Struggle for the Past: How We Construct","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn all societies—but especially those that have endured political violence—the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around the Argentine experience since the 1970s within the broader context of the Southern Cone and international developments, \u003cem\u003eThe Struggle for the Past\u003c\/em\u003e undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization, it gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field of inquiry, lucidly recounting the author’s own intellectual and personal journey during these decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Perspectives on the Past: Conflictive and Never-Ending\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Building a Research Field: Memory and Gender in Latin American Social Sciences\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Explorations, Certainties, and Uncertainties: The Human Rights Movement and Building Democracy in Argentina\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Markers of Memory: Dates, Places, Archives\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Victims, Relatives, or Citizens? Whose Voices are Legitimate Enough?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sexual Abuse as a Crime against Humanity and the Right to Privacy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Taking the Floor: Testimonial Voices over Time\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Memory—for what? Towards a More Democratic Future\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042564145495,"sku":"9781789207828","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-struggle-for-the-past-how-we-construct-social-memories-9781789207828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}