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| Title | : | Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (The Cultures and Practice of Violence) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822340828 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
“Unsettling Accounts is an extremely valuable contribution to social science scholarship. Leigh A. Payne’s complex and nuanced analysis of when, why, and how perpetrators confess is far more sophisticated than any other research that I know about.”—Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
She argues that this debate—and the public confessions that trigger it—are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and the contestation of political ideas.Payne draws on interviews, unedited television film, newspaper archives, and books written by perpetrators to analyze confessions of state violence in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and South Africa. Focusing on these and other confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence, Leigh A. Each of these four countries addressed its past through a different institutional form—from blanket amnesty, to conditional amnesty based on confessions, to judicial trials. Payne asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. The head of a police death squad refuses to become the scapegoat for apartheid-era violence in South Africa; he begins to name names and provide details of past atrocities to the Truth Commission. Payne considers perpetrators’ confessions as performance, e
"Compelling, detailed, and sort of balanced" according to Roseanne D. Ms Payne has crafted a well-written, concise, and thought provoking book about the different types of state sponsored perpetrator confessions and the effects these have on their respective societies. Using the central analogy of theater, she shows how the perpretrator/actor acts in the context of his confession to the populace/audience and how these different types of confessions stir or stifle debate in the parent society. Using the examples of notoriou
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