Many years after the fall of Franco's regime, Spanish human rights activists have turned to new methods to keep the memory of state terror alive. By excavating mass graves, exhuming remains, and employing forensic analysis and DNA testing, they seek to provide direct evidence of repression and...

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1. Verfasser:	Iturriaga, Nicole (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY Columbia University Press [2022]
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1936-1975 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General Collective memory > Spain Human rights > Spain > 20th century State-sponsored terrorism > Spain > 20th century Violence > Spain > 20th century Kollektives Gedächtnis Massengrab Transitional Justice Politischer Mord Exhumierung Spanischer Bürgerkrieg > 1936-1939 Franquismus Spanien
Online-Zugang:	DE-706 DE-Aug4 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Many years after the fall of Franco's regime, Spanish human rights activists have turned to new methods to keep the memory of state terror alive. By excavating mass graves, exhuming remains, and employing forensic analysis and DNA testing, they seek to provide direct evidence of repression and break through the silence about the dictatorship's atrocities that persisted well into Spain's transition to democracy.Nicole Iturriaga offers an ethnographic examination of how Spanish human rights activists use forensic methods to challenge dominant histories, reshape collective memory, and create new forms of transitional justice. She argues that by grounding their claims in science, activists can present themselves as credible and impartial, helping them intervene in fraught public disputes about the remembrance of the past. The perceived legitimacy and authenticity of scientific techniques allows their users to contest the state's historical claims and offer new narratives of violence in pursuit of long-delayed justice.Iturriaga draws on interviews with technicians and forensics experts and provides a detailed case study of Spain's best-known forensic human rights organization, the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory. She also considers how the tools and tactics used in Spain can be adopted by human rights and civil society groups pursuing transitional justice in other parts of the world. An ethnographically rich account, Exhuming Violent Histories sheds new light on how science and technology intersect with human rights and collective memory
Beschreibung:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource 25 b&w illustrations
ISBN:	9780231553940
DOI:	10.7312/itur20112