Dissensual Subjects examines the relationship between memory and human rights in postdictatorial Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Combining cultural studies and critical theory, Andrew C. Rajca explores how the aftereffects of dictatorship are used to formulate dominant notions of human rights in the present. In so doing he critiques the exclusionary nature of these processes and highlights who and what count (and do not count) as subjects of human rights as a result.

Through an engaging exploration of the concept of "never again" (nunca mas/nunca mais) and close analysis of...

Dissensual Subjects is a fascinating, interdisciplinary exploration of memory and human rights in postdictatorial Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina that will interest readers concerned with political subjectivity, aesthetics, cultural studies, visual culture, Southern Cone studies, postdictatorship studies, and sites of memory.