Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1960s to the mid-1980s.
The contributors, primarily Latin American scholars, examine the deep sense of insecurity and the complex social psychology of people who live in authoritarian regimes. There is Argentina, where the brutal repression of the 1976 coup almost completely smothered individuals who might once have opposed government practices, and Uruguay, where the government forced the population into neutrality and isolation and cast a silent pall on everyday life. Accounts of repression and resistance in Chile and Brazil are also vividly presented. The denial and rationalization by citizens in all four countries can only be understood in the context of the generalized fear and confusion created by the violent military campaigns, which included abductions, torture, and disappearances of alleged terrorists.
The recent transition to civilian rule in these countries has spotlighted their powerful legacy of fear. These important essays reveal disturbing insights into how fear is generated, legitimized, accommodated, and resisted among people living under totalitarian rule.
Despite the emergence of fragile democracies in Latin America in the 1980s, a legacy of fear and repression haunts this region. This provocative volume chronicles the effect of systematic state terror on the social fabric in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction
Fear: A Cultural and Political Construct
by Juan E. Corradi, Patricia Weiss Fagen,
and Manuel Antonio Garret6n
PART ONE. FEAR AND AUTHORITARIANISM
1. Fear in Military Regimes: An Overview
by Manuel Antonio Garret6n
2. Some People Die of Fear: Fear as a Political Problem
by Norbert Lechner
PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING CULTURES OF FEAR
3. Repression and State Security
by Patricia Weiss Fagen
4. Victims of Fear: The Social Psychology of Repression
by Sofia Salimovich, Elizabeth Lira, and Eugenia Weinstein
5. Makers and Guardians of Fear: Controlled Terror
in Uruguay by Juan Rial
6. Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum
by Jean Franco
PART THREE. RESOURCES, STRATEGIES, AND CONSTRAINTS: FIGHTING FEAR
7. Resistance to Fear in Chile: The Experience of the Vicaria de la Solidaridad
by Hugo Fruhling
8. Fear of the State, Fear of Society: On the Opposition Protests in Chile
by Javier Martinez
9. Testimonial Literature and the Armed Struggle in Brazil
by Joan Dassin
10. Cultures of Fear, Cultures of Resistance: The New Labor Movement in Brazil
by Maria Helena Moreira Alves
11. Youth, Politics, and Dictatorship in Uruguay
by Carina Perelli
12. Strategies of the Literary Imagination
by Beatriz Sarlo
13. Beyond Fear: Forms of Justice and Compensation
by Emilio F. Mignone
PART FOUR. A LOOK AHEAD
14. Toward Societies without Fear
by Juan E. Corradi
Index
Om författaren
Juan E. Corradi is Professor of Sociology at New York University and the author of The Fitful Republic: Economy, Society, and Politics in Argentina (1985). Patricia Weiss Fagen works for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in El Salvador and is the author of Exiles and Citizens: Spanish Republicans in Mexico (1973). Manuel Antonio Garretón is a member of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Santiago, Chile.
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