Place is memory: A framework for placemaking in the case of the human rights memorials in Buenos Aires

2021 ◽  
pp. 100419
Author(s):  
Marco Cremaschi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Buenos Aires

Interview with Estela Barnes de Carlotto

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (905) ◽  
pp. 487-495
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Human Cost ◽  
Insight Into

Estela Barnes de Carlotto is an Argentinian human rights activist and president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One of her daughters, Laura Estela Carlotto, was abducted while pregnant in Buenos Aires at the end of 1977. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo association was founded that same year, with the aim of recovering children kidnapped during the dictatorship, some of whom were born to abducted mothers. The Grandmothers seek both their grandchildren and their own children. They estimate that around 500 kidnapped grandchildren have been illegally adopted into other families.This interview highlights the human cost of forced disappearance for the families left behind, who know neither the fate nor the whereabouts of their loved ones. Drawing on her vast experience of leading and advocating for these families, Estela gives us valuable insight into the role that relatives can play in developing mechanisms to trace missing people.

The Ghosts of Montes de Oca: Buried Subtext of Argentina's Dirty War

2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-220
Author(s):  
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
Buenos Aires Province ◽  
Dirty War ◽  
Public Dialogue ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Mental Defectives

No rhetorical flourishes: this work-in-progress is intended to provoke a long-overdue public dialogue on an ugly topic that refuses to stay disappeared. It treats a hidden battleground of Argentina's Dirty War (1976–1983), a ‘petite war,’ a war within the war, directed by a military-appointed doctor against the mentally deficient inmates concentrated at the national psychiatric hospital, the Colonia Nacional Dr. Manuel A. Montes de Oca in Torres, and its sister institution, the Colonia Psiquiátrica Domingo Cabred, in Lujan, both in Buenos Aires province. Buried in the historical, statistical, legal, and archival records, along with the key informant interviews, ethnographic observations, and photos is shattering evidence of medical human rights abuses committed under the necropolitics of the Dirty War against an abandoned population of mental “defectives” who were condemned to gratuitous suffering and early deaths at the psychiatric colony (see Figure 1). In the worst instances, the abuses were crimes against humanity.

The ‘blue leviathan’

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-347
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Stamatakis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Institutional Legitimacy

There have been complaints against the Argentinian police for decades (CELS, 2013, 2015). The Argentinian police (either federal, national, prefectural or military) have been characterised as the ‘blue leviathan’ (Saín, 2008), being responsible for gross human rights violations and excessive violence committed against civilians. The present article focuses on youth, aiming to explore their perceptions regarding police violence and impunity based on past negative experiences in one of the most affected areas in the metropolitan region of Buenos Aires, the Mitre neighbourhood. The quantitative data gathered for this study furthers the discussion on institutional legitimacy and the mutual relationship between the development of confidence, obedience in law and procedural justice, in Argentina and beyond.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
pp. 171-180
Author(s):  
Victoria Fortuna
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Atlantic Slave Trade

The epilogue examines the 2011 human rights march in Buenos Aires on the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice (Día Nacional de la Memoria por la Verdad y la Justicia), the anniversary of the start of the last military dictatorship (1976–83). It analyzes the author’s participation with Oduduwá Danza Afroamericana (Oduduwá Afro-American Dance), a group that brought together scores of volunteers to perform choreography based in Orishá dance. Orishá dance’s Yoruban origins and connection to the African diaspora made it an unexpected addition to the demonstration given the construction of Argentina as exceptionally white among Latin American nations. The group strove to connect Orishá dance’s link to the violence of the trans-Atlantic slave trade with Argentina’s history of political disappearance, as well as the country’s own violence against Afro-Argentines. Oduduwá’s project reiterates the importance of dance as both a political practice and one linked to memory.

Fast, clean and green: Cold War ideologies and urban reforms in Buenos Aires, 1976–1983

Urban History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 646-662
Author(s):  
JENNIFER T. HOYT
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
National Capital ◽  
To Come ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Military ◽  
One Act

ABSTRACT:The last military dictatorship to come to power in Argentina is most well known for its atrocious human rights violations. However, this campaign of terror represents just one act carried out in the regime's efforts to counter leftist activities. The military sought to provide responsive administration as a means to pacify the nation. In the national capital, Buenos Aires, the military pursued a comprehensive set of urban reforms meant to streamline and control the metropolis. Cold War ideologies deeply penetrated the every-day and profoundly changed how citizens lived in Buenos Aires.

The Making of Human Rights Policy in Argentina: the Impact of Ideas and Interests on a Legal Conflict

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Osiel
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Impact

The walls of downtown Buenos Aires displayed a new and haunting image in the weeks before the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín in December, 1983: black, outlined silhouettes of human beings, each accompanied by a name. The ghost-like figures represented those who had ‘disappeared’ in the military's proclaimed ‘war against subversion’. They testified silently but eloquently to the memory of the victims of that experience in the thoughts of many Argentines, and foreshadowed what was to become one of the most vexing political problems for the new civilian government. Among the many difficulties bequeathed to President Alfonsín by the military juntas who ruled Argentina for the eight preceding years, first among these in ethical exigency was the question of what to do concerning los desaparecidos.

scholarly journals “Human rights” in dispute: State violence and demands for justice in a comparative perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Eilbaum
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective

This paper proposes a reflection on the “human rights” category, as a native category, endowed with local and specific meanings. Therefore, it utilizes a comparative perspective by contrast on the uses and meanings of the “state violence” category and the building of processes demanding justice in Rio de Janeiro, in comparison to Buenos Aires. Specifically, it focuses on the ethnography produced after the murder of Rio's alderwoman Marielle Franco, to propose the notion of “attack on human rights”, showing how the category has been built through an antagonistic logic in Rio de Janeiro.

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