My doctoral research focused on contested commemorations of past human rights violations in Argentina and Uruguay, specifically the urban centres of Montevideo and Buenos Aires. The project aimed to deepen understanding of the ways in which such violations can be addressed by state and societal actors and explore the relationship between commemoration and justice. This involved extended periods of fieldwork in both Argentina and Uruguay where I conducted visits to urban commemorative sites and interviews with key actors.
My main research interests include Latin American human rights violations, political violence and transitional truth and justice, the politics of memory (particularly commemoration and protest) in the Southern Cone and Argentine and Uruguay political and social history and culture.
Este libro analiza el impacto y los legados de los gobiernos kirchneristas, considerados al comie... more Este libro analiza el impacto y los legados de los gobiernos kirchneristas, considerados al comienzo de la nueva época macrista que los reemplazó. Enmarcando su análisis a partir de la crisis de 2001, se evalúan aquí los distintos comportamientos que han tomado distintos sectores de la sociedad argentina para lograr una recuperación económica y un renacimiento político, social y cultural. Así, el alcance del libro es multidisciplinario, cubriendo desde los efectos macroeconómicos y específicamente políticos hasta las respuestas de las comunidades y los movimientos sociales en varios puntos del país. Se propone,de esta manera, que el kirchnerismo representó una recuperación de prácticas anteriores, desde lo económico hasta lo cultural, para que el país pudiera reclamar un futuro propio en el siglo XXI, el cual había comenzado con un desplome económico ciertamente catastrófico y un profundo trastorno político y social.
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to... more Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ – a term that acknowledges memory’s propensity for engagement beyond the cultural sphere – this study shifts the focus away from exclusively aesthetic and architectural readings of marches, memorials and monuments to instead analyse their emergence and transformation in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay. This book incorporates the role of state and societal actors and conflicts underpinning commemorative processes into its analysis, reading the sites within shifting contexts of impunity to explore their relationship to memory, truth seeking and justice in the long aftermath of dictatorship.
Bringing together contributions from a multi-disciplinary and international group of experts, thi... more Bringing together contributions from a multi-disciplinary and international group of experts, this volume explores the effects and legacies of Argentina's 2001-2002 social, economic, and political implosion. Interrogating the nature and effects of the crisis, the contributors reject the dichotomy of 'old' and 'new'; instead, they argue that responses to the crisis and the factors that precipitated the crisis are a combination of pre-existing and emerging problems, many of them ones that were perceptible in the 1990s and earlier. The multi-disciplinary analysis has implications beyond Argentina. This volume is essential reading for researchers, students, and policymakers interested in crisis, responses to it, and subsequent processes of recovery.
Este libro analiza el impacto y los legados de los gobiernos kirchneristas, considerados al comie... more Este libro analiza el impacto y los legados de los gobiernos kirchneristas, considerados al comienzo de la nueva época macrista que los reemplazó. Enmarcando su análisis a partir de la crisis de 2001, se evalúan aquí los distintos comportamientos que han tomado distintos sectores de la sociedad argentina para lograr una recuperación económica y un renacimiento político, social y cultural. Así, el alcance del libro es multidisciplinario, cubriendo desde los efectos macroeconómicos y específicamente políticos hasta las respuestas de las comunidades y los movimientos sociales en varios puntos del país. Se propone,de esta manera, que el kirchnerismo representó una recuperación de prácticas anteriores, desde lo económico hasta lo cultural, para que el país pudiera reclamar un futuro propio en el siglo XXI, el cual había comenzado con un desplome económico ciertamente catastrófico y un profundo trastorno político y social.
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to... more Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ – a term that acknowledges memory’s propensity for engagement beyond the cultural sphere – this study shifts the focus away from exclusively aesthetic and architectural readings of marches, memorials and monuments to instead analyse their emergence and transformation in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay. This book incorporates the role of state and societal actors and conflicts underpinning commemorative processes into its analysis, reading the sites within shifting contexts of impunity to explore their relationship to memory, truth seeking and justice in the long aftermath of dictatorship.
Bringing together contributions from a multi-disciplinary and international group of experts, thi... more Bringing together contributions from a multi-disciplinary and international group of experts, this volume explores the effects and legacies of Argentina's 2001-2002 social, economic, and political implosion. Interrogating the nature and effects of the crisis, the contributors reject the dichotomy of 'old' and 'new'; instead, they argue that responses to the crisis and the factors that precipitated the crisis are a combination of pre-existing and emerging problems, many of them ones that were perceptible in the 1990s and earlier. The multi-disciplinary analysis has implications beyond Argentina. This volume is essential reading for researchers, students, and policymakers interested in crisis, responses to it, and subsequent processes of recovery.
With the increasing opportunities for justice ushered in by the repeal of the Full Stop and Due O... more With the increasing opportunities for justice ushered in by the repeal of the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws in 2005, the struggles for memory and justice by Argentina’s H.I.J.O.S. (Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice against Forgetting and Silence) have shifted focus. Pre-2005, the organization used escraches (public demonstrations in which the perpetrators of human rights violations are “outed”) to respond to the problem of top-down impunity in Argentina, condemn the atrocities, and expose the legal immunity enjoyed by the perpetrators. Post-2005, it has employed escraches to bring to the fore shortcomings in the judicial sphere by widening its selection of targets.
Furthermore, new activities outside and inside the courtroom reflect the new landscape of justice, celebrating the advent of justice and accompanying victims, survivors, and witnesses in this process while continuing to highlight persistent shortcomings and obstacles in the judicial sphere.
Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis: Recovering the Past, Reclaiming the Future, Jul 17, 2014
This book chapter is the Introduction to the book Argentina since the 2001 Crisis: Recovering the... more This book chapter is the Introduction to the book Argentina since the 2001 Crisis: Recovering the Past, Reclaiming the Future. It analyses the nature and effects of the 2001 crisis in Argentina, setting the scene for the discussion of the legacies of crisis that follow in successive chapters. First, it seeks to reject false dichotomies of 'old' and 'new'; instead synthesising them in order to incorporate both elements of continuity and elements of change into analysis. We assert that responses to crisis do not only involve the merging of old and new, but that they are also, concurrently, responses to both old and new problems – many of which were evident in the 1990s and before. Second, it recognises that crisis manifests itself in a number of realms – political, economic, social – and that heuristic devices employed to investigate them must subsequently also be drawn from a number of academic disciplines. This second point is in recognition of the fact that models of political economy, by their very nature and definition, come to encompass all aspects of social life and social reproduction.
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to... more Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ – a term that acknowledges memory’s propensity for engagement beyond the cultural sphere – this study shifts the focus away from exclusively aesthetic and architectural readings of marches, memorials and monuments to instead analyse their emergence and transformation in post-dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay. This book incorporates the role of state and societal actors and conflicts underpinning commemorative processes into its analysis, reading the sites within shifting contexts of impunity to explore their relationship to memory, truth seeking and justice in the long aftermath of dictatorship.
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Furthermore, new activities outside and inside the courtroom reflect the new landscape of justice, celebrating the advent of justice and accompanying victims, survivors, and witnesses in this process while continuing to highlight persistent shortcomings and obstacles in the judicial sphere.
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