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Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past

Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations

By: Paloma Aguilar,Leigh A. Payne

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Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past

Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations

By: Paloma Aguilar,Leigh A. Payne

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 has begun to emerge. This book analyzes how this recent transformation has occurred. It recognizes that political processes are not always linear and inexorable. Thus, it remains to be seen how far contentious coexistence will go in Spain.

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1137562293

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Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below

Deploying Archimedes' Lever

By: Leigh A. Payne,Gabriel Pereira,Laura Bernal-Bermúdez

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Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below

Deploying Archimedes' Lever

By: Leigh A. Payne,Gabriel Pereira,Laura Bernal-Bermúdez

Bruno Tesch was tried and executed for his company's Zyklon B gas used in Nazi Germany's extermination camps. This book examines this trial and the more than 300 other economic actors who faced prosecution for the Holocaust's crimes against humanity. It further tracks and analyses similar transitional justice mechanisms for holding economic actors accountable for human rights violations in dictatorships and armed conflict: international, foreign, and domestic trials and truth commissions from the 1970s to the present in every region of the world. This book probes what these accountability efforts are, why they take place, and when, where, and how they unfold. Analysis of the authors' original database leads them to conclude that 'corporate accountability from below' is underway, particularly in Latin America. A kind of Archimedes' lever places the right tools in weak local actors' hands to lift weighty international human rights claims, overcoming the near absence of international pressure and the powerful veto power of business.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108640753

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9781108640756

Unsettling Accounts

Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

By: Leigh A. Payne

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Neither Truth Nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

By: Leigh A. Payne

DIVFocuses on perpetrators of human rights crimes, investigating confessions by human rights violators in contexts of transitional justice in South America and South Africa./div

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Duke University Press

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0822340828

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9780822340829

Medieval Drama

By: Colette Rausch,Leigh A. Payne

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Medieval Drama

By: Colette Rausch,Leigh A. Payne

Medieval Drama is a textbook, designed to be used by A level and undergraduate students of theatre and drama. It is divided into two major areas, mystery cycles and morality plays, and it examines the plays from a performance perspective. The book makes special reference to those texts contained within selections of plays which can be readily obtained by students, including A.C.Cawley's Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (Dent). The staging conventions of pageant waggon performance, place and scaffold playing and the drama of the Hall are explored in relation to the cultural context of the medieval period.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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134921180X

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Unsettling Accounts

Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

By: Leigh A. Payne

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Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

By: Leigh A. Payne

An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian military officer draws on his own experiences to write a novel describing the military’s involvement in a massacre during the 1970s. 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. Focusing on these and other confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence, Leigh A. Payne asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. While mechanisms such as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission are touted as means of settling accounts with the past, Payne contends that public confessions do not settle the past. They are unsettling by nature. Rather than reconcile past violence, they catalyze contentious debate. 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. 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 considers perpetrators’ confessions as performance, examining what they say and what they communicate nonverbally; the timing, setting, and reception of their confessions; and the different ways that they portray their pasts, whether in terms of remorse, heroism, denial, or sadism, or through lies or betrayal.

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0822390434

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Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability from Below

Deploying Archimedes' Lever

By: Leigh A. Payne,Gabriel Pereira,Laura Bernal-Bermúdez

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Deploying Archimedes' Lever

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Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past

Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations

By: Paloma Aguilar,Leigh A. Payne

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Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past

Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations

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Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past

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Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past

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