Conflicted memory : military cultural interventions and the human rights era in Peru

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Label

Conflicted memory : military cultural interventions and the human rights era in Peru

Title remainder

military cultural interventions and the human rights era in Peru

Statement of responsibility

Cynthia E. Milton

Creator

• Milton, Cynthia E

Author

• Milton, Cynthia E

Subject

• Collective memory -- Peru
• Electronic books
• HISTORY -- Latin America | South America
• History
• Human rights -- Peru -- Historiography -- 20th century
• Memory -- Political aspects
• Memory -- Political aspects -- Peru
• Peru
• Peru -- Armed Forces | Historiography
• Peru -- History -- 1980-
• Peru -- Politics and government -- 1980-
• Political violence -- Peru -- Historiography -- 20th century
• Politics and government
• Since 1900
• Armed Forces -- Historiography
• Collective memory

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

What happens when concepts of "truth," "memory," and "human rights" are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of violence? Peru has moved from the 1980s-90s conflict between its armed forces and Shining Path militants into an era of open democracy, transitional justice, and truth and reconciliation commissions. Cynthia Milton reveals how Peru's military has engaged in a tactical cultural campaign--via books, films, museums--to shift public opinion, debate, and memories about the nation's violent recent past and its part in it. Milton calls attention to fabrications of our post-truth era but goes further to deeply explore the ways members of the Peruvian military see their past, how they actively commemorate and curate it in the present, and why they do so. Her nuanced approach upends frameworks of memory studies that reduce military and ex-military to a predictable role of outright denial

Member of

• Critical human rights

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

985.06/3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

F3448.5

LC item number

.M55 2018eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Critical human rights