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In a field where the consensus around human rights violations has become a master narrative of victimhood, Rajca's theoretical intervention problematizes the so called depoliticized ethical turn, proposing an alternative reading of the relationship between politics, ethics and aesthetics. This work redefines the politics of visibility imposed by the Nunca Mas/Nunca Mais State's dictum, liberating the political emancipatory potential of the bare human. --Fernando A. Blanco This book presents a new approach to the field of memory studies, opening up a different way of looking and questioning how to deal with problems of social injustice and inequality beyond the usual logic of resistance and victimhood. --Susana Draper, author of Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America Rajca delivers a powerful and impressive critique of memory politics in the Southern Cone and Brazil. Skillfully written, this book is certain to impact the way scholars interpret the relationship between human rights and memory in Latin America and beyond. --Rebecca J. Atencio, author of Memory's Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil

Rajca delivers a powerful and impressive critique of memory politics in the Southern Cone and Brazil. Skillfully written, this book is certain to impact the way scholars interpret the relationship between human rights and memory in Latin America and beyond. --Rebecca J. Atencio, author of Memory's Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil

In a field where the consensus around human rights violations has become a master narrative of victimhood, Rajca's theoretical intervention problematizes the so called depoliticized ethical turn, proposing an alternative reading of the relationship between politics, ethics and aesthetics. This work redefines the politics of visibility imposed by the Nunca Mas/Nunca Mais State's dictum, liberating the political emancipatory potential of the bare human. --Fernando A. Blanco Rajca delivers a powerful and impressive critique of memory politics in the Southern Cone and Brazil. Skillfully written, this book is certain to impact the way scholars interpret the relationship between human rights and memory in Latin America and beyond. --Rebecca J. Atencio, author of Memory's Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil This book presents a new approach to the field of memory studies, opening up a different way of looking and questioning how to deal with problems of social injustice and inequality beyond the usual logic of resistance and victimhood. --Susana Draper, author of Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America

In a field where the consensus around human rights violations has become a master narrative of victimhood, Rajca's theoretical intervention problematizes the so called depoliticized ethical turn, proposing an alternative reading of the relationship between politics, ethics and aesthetics. This work redefines the politics of visibility imposed by the Nunca M s/Nunca Mais State's dictum, liberating the political emancipatory potential of the bare human. --Fernando A. Blanco This book presents a new approach to the field of memory studies, opening up a different way of looking and questioning how to deal with problems of social injustice and inequality beyond the usual logic of resistance and victimhood. --Susana Draper, author of Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America Rajca delivers a powerful and impressive critique of memory politics in the Southern Cone and Brazil. Skillfully written, this book is certain to impact the way scholars interpret the relationship between human rights and memory in Latin America and beyond. --Rebecca J. Atencio, author of Memory's Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil

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ANDREW C. RAJCA is an assistant professor of Portuguese and Spanish and the Portuguese program director at the University of South Carolina.

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