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Author: Francesca Lessa ,
Leigh A. Payne (University of Oxford)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN: 9781139177153
ISBN 10: 113917715
Publication Date: 05 June 2012
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Reviews
[This] book is a welcome contribution to the rapidly expanding field of transnational justice and to the menu of policy choice after gross violations of human rights. -- D.P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, Reviewing for Choice Magazine
[This] book is a welcome contribution to the rapidly expanding field of transnational justice and to the menu of policy choice after gross violations of human rights. -- D.P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, Reviewing for Choice Magazine
"""[This] book is a welcome contribution to the rapidly expanding field of transnational justice and to the menu of policy choice after gross violations of human rights."" -- D.P. Forsythe, emeritus, University of Nebraska, Reviewing for Choice Magazine"
Author Information
Francesca Lessa is Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Latin American Centre and Research Fellow at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, where she works on 'The Impact of Transitional Justice on Human Rights and Democracy', a project funded by the US National Science Foundation and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Before joining the University of Oxford, she was Research Associate for the Latin America International Affairs Programme, IDEAS Centre, at the London School of Economics, and visiting Lecturer on Transitional Justice and Human Rights at the Faculty of Psychology, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay. Lessa is co-editor (with Vincent Druliolle) of The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (2011) and (with Gabriela Fried) of Luchas contra la impunidad: Uruguay, 1985–2011 (2011). Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford and Governing Body Fellow of St Antony's College. She is currently a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota. She is the recipient of numerous research awards including one, most recently, from the US National Science Foundation and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council for a collaborative research project entitled 'The Impact of Transitional Justice on Human Rights and Democracy'. She co-edited (with Ksenija Bilbija) Accounting for Memory: Marketing Memory in Latin America (2011) and co-authored (with Tricia D. Olsen and Andrew Reiter) Transitional Justice in Balance: Comparing Processes, Weighing Efficacy (2010). Her most recent solo authored book is Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (2008).
