Dear Madame President : a never-delivered speech and a never-ending story / Vera Paiva -- The public prosecutors' office of Sao Paulo and the legacy of the dictatorship : a brief report on activities prior to the Truth Commission / Eugenia Gonzaga -- The censorship of history and fact-finding in Brazil (1945-2015) / Antoon De Baets -- Democratic transition and conciliation : human rights and the legacy of the Brazilian dictatorship / Janaina de Almeida Teles -- The National Truth Commission (NTC) : truth and responsibility / Carolina de Campos Melo and Andre Saboia Martins -- Repression, resistance and the intergenerational dialogue : establishing a truth commission at the University of Brasilia / Jose Otavio Nogueira Guimaraes and Cristiano Paixao Paixao -- Truth commissions in the digital age : an analysis of the Brazilian case / Ana Migowski -- Corporate complicity in the Brazilian dictatorship / Leigh A. Payne -- Volkswagen do Brasil during the military dictatorship : an economic and political assessment / Christopher Kopper -- The outcomes of the Brazilian Truth Commission : successes and failures in a lengthy transitional justice process / Marlon Weichert -- The struggle for the voice of the victims in the National Truth Commission Brazil : memories and truth yesterday and today / San Romanelli Assumpcao -- 'Nunca mais': lessons from Brazil's dictatorial past / Gisele Iecker de Almeida -- Truth commissions and their archives in El Salvador, Peru, and Brazil / Ann Schneider -- Memory, truth, and auto-fiction in the recent Latin American novel / Jobst Welge -- Reconfigurations of transitional justice in the wake of the Arab uprisings global, regional and local developments / Fatima Kastner -- Truth commissions : a bottom up approach to institution building / Anja Mihr -- Afterword / Nina Schneider -- Appendix 1. List of selected local truth commissions in Brazil by region and state -- Appendix 2. Selected list of Brazilian online resources (in alphabetical order) -- Appendix 3. Photos from the Brazilian Truth Commission.
Summary:
Bringing together some of the world's leading scholars, practitioners, and human rights activists, this groundbreaking volume provides the first systematic analysis of the 2012-2014 Brazilian National Truth Commission. While attentive to the inquiry's local and national dimensions, it offers an illuminating transnational perspective that considers the Commission's Latin American regional context and relates it to global efforts for human rights accountability, contributing to a more general and critical reassessment of truth commissions from a variety of viewpoints.
Series:
Studies in Latin American and Spanish history ; volume 4
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.