Remembering the Rescuers of Victims of Human Rights Crimes in Latin America.
This book explores the significance of remembering the rescuers denouncing human rights crimes and protecting targeted victims-including the dead-during the Cold War state violence in Latin America. It moves past a victim - perpetrator dichotomy to focus on those whose righteous acts were beacons fo...
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2016
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: why remember the rescuers in Latin America? / Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernan
- Rescued from fear: the Sebastian Acevedo movement against torture in Chile / Christopher Ney
- Bending the rules: an ambassador's quest to save lives / Pascale Bonnefoy
- The Santo Tomás chichicastenango's municipal firefighters : "Green pines covering the dead bodies" / Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy Sanandres
- Strategic rescue responses to genocide : the Guatemalan case / Roddy Brett
- Between memory and oblivion : the cases of Eureka and Afadem / Isabel de León Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam Rodriguez
- From rescue to solidarity : (re) humanizing relationships for social transformation / Jenny Escobar and Angie Tamayo
- Argentine rescuers : a study on the "banality of good" / Jessica Casiro
- Conclusion: on the moral value of rescue and remembering rescuers : conceptualizing rescue in the Latin American context / Jeffrey Blustein
- About the contributors and editors.
