The Politics of Atrocity: On the Genealogy of Structural Violence in Argentina - Couverture souple

Heuer, Wolfgang R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3837681750 ISBN 13 : 9783837681758

Editeur : Transcript Verlag, 2026

Synopsis

The terror of Argentina’s last military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, with an estimated 30,000 people murdered, is one of a series of violent conflicts that have taken every known form since independence from Spain in 1825: civil wars, dictatorships and genocide of the indigenous population. They are accompanied by a culture of violence and cruelty and reinforce social inequality, weakness and corruption in state institutions. Wolfgang R. Heuer tells the story of political violence in Argentina in short episodes, including early observations of genocide, metaphors of failure in literature, and the reasons for the failure of the Montoneros urban guerrilla movement. This shows that violence and anarchy, in the sense of weak politics, reinforce each other.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wolfgang R. Heuer ist Privatdozent und Politologe an der Freien Universität Berlin. Er hatte zudem Gastprofessuren in Brasilien, Kolumbien und Chile inne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transcript Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3837681750
• ISBN 13: 9783837681758
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: GPSR Kontakt; live@transcript-verlag.de; ; Hermannstraße 26; Bielefeld; 33602; Allemagne