Paloma Aguilar

Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past

Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations

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The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy. That foundation is beginning to crack as perpetrators' confessions upset the silence and exhumations of mass graves unbury new truths. It has become possible, even if not completely socially acceptable, to speak openly about the past, to disclose the testimonies of the victims, and to ask for truth and justice. Contentious coexistence that put political participation, contestation, and expression in practice ha… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Payne, Leigh A.

ISBN: 978-1-137-56229-6
EAN: 9781137562296
Produktnummer: 21240505
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'944 KB

Über den Autor

Paloma Aguilar is Associate Professor of Political Science at UNED, Madrid, Spain. She is the author of Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy (2001) and coeditor of The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies (2001). She was Tinker Professor at the University of Wisconsin and Visiting Professor at Princeton University.Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin America and Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK. Her research has received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Academy, Social Science Research Council, and various foundations. She is the author of Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (2008).