Book: State Terrorism and the Politics of Memory in Latin America

Fried-Amilivia, Gabriela. 2016.  State terrorism and the politics of memory in Latin America: Transmissions across the generations of post-dictatorship Uruguay, 1984-2004.  Cambria Press. Dr. Fried-Amilivia is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology.  “This book examines the intergenerational transmission of traumatic memories of the dictatorship in the aftermath of the two first decades since the Uruguayan dictatorship of 1973–1984 in the broader context of public policies of denial and institutionalized impunity. Transitional justice studies have tended to focus on countries like Argentina or Chile in the Southern Cone of Latin America. However, not much research has been conducted on the “silent” cases of transitions as a result of negotiated pacts. The literature on memory trauma and impunity has much to offer to studies of transition and post-authoritarianism. This book situates the human and cultural experience of state terrorism from the perspective of the experiences of Uruguayan families, through an in-depth ethnographic, cultural, psycho-social, and political interdisciplinary study.”