Sovereign Emergencies: Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics

ISBN-13: 9781107163249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str.

Patrick William Kelly

Opis

Shows how Latin America was the crucible of the global human rights revolution of the 1970s.

Recenzje

'Sovereign Emergencies is a fantastic read. It foregrounds Latin America in the human rights revolution of the 1970s, offers insightful comments about the role of Latin American exiles in this revolution, includes fascinating digressions about testimonial truth, and, all in all, provides a successful model to those interested in writing empirically grounded transnational histories.' Alfonso Salgado, Journal of Contemporary History

Spis treści

List of figures; Introduction; 1. Torture in Brazil; 2. The emergency in Chile; 3. Transnational solidarity; 4. Redefining sovereignty; 5. The origins of American human rights activism; 6. The global specter of Argentina's disappeared; 7. Argentina and the inter-American system; Epilogue: the promise and limits of the human rights cascade; Index.