Unsettling Accounts ：Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence ( The Cultures and Practice of Violence )

Publication subTitle ：Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence

Publication series ：The Cultures and Practice of Violence

Author： Leigh A. Payne  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2007

E-ISBN: 9780822390435

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822340829

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822340614

Subject： D51 国际政治矛盾与斗争

Keyword： Political violence -- Case studies., Confession (Law) -- Case studies., Democratization -- Case studies.

Language： ENG

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An Argentine naval officer remorsefully admits that he killed thirty people during Argentina’s Dirty War. A member of General Augusto Pinochet’s intelligence service reveals on a television show that he took sadistic pleasure in the sexual torture of women in clandestine prisons. A Brazilian military officer draws on his own experiences to write a novel describing the military’s involvement in a massacre during the 1970s. The head of a police death squad refuses to become the scapegoat for apartheid-era violence in South Africa; he begins to name names and provide details of past atrocities to the Truth Commission. Focusing on these and other confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence, Leigh A. Payne asks what happens when perpetrators publicly admit or discuss their actions. While mechanisms such as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission are touted as means of settling accounts with the past, Payne contends that public confessions do not settle the past. They are unsettling by nature. Rather than reconcile past violence, they catalyze contentious debate. She argues that this debate—and the public confessions that trigger it—are healthy for democratic processes of political participation, freedom of expression, and the contestation of political ideas.

Payne draws on interviews, unedited television film, newspaper archives, and books written by perpetrators to analyze confessions of state violence in Argentina

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Contents

Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Abbreviations

Abbreviations

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Political Power of Confession

Introduction: The Political Power of Confession

Introduction: The Political Power of Confession

Introduction: The Political Power of Confession

1 Confessional Performance

1 Confessional Performance

1 Confessional Performance

1 Confessional Performance

2 Remorse

2 Remorse

2 Remorse

2 Remorse

3 Heroic Confessions

3 Heroic Confessions

3 Heroic Confessions

3 Heroic Confessions

4 Sadism

4 Sadism

4 Sadism

4 Sadism

5 Denial

5 Denial

5 Denial

5 Denial

6 Silence

6 Silence

6 Silence

6 Silence

7 Fiction and Lies

7 Fiction and Lies

7 Fiction and Lies

7 Fiction and Lies

8 Amnesia

8 Amnesia

8 Amnesia

8 Amnesia

9 Betrayal

9 Betrayal

9 Betrayal

9 Betrayal

Conclusion: Contentious Coexistence

Conclusion: Contentious Coexistence

Conclusion: Contentious Coexistence

Conclusion: Contentious Coexistence

Notes

Notes

Notes

Notes

Bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Index

Index

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