Variations on Justice: Argentina's Pre- and Post-Transitional Justice and the Justice to Come

Vaisman, Noa

doi:10.1080/00141844.2015.1080746

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“…7. I am also indebted to Vaisman's (2017) 12. Scientists at the Institute explained that environmental monitoring occurred by choosing 'representative soils' that displayed similar vegetative cover as the areas where PECIG operated.…”

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Chemical warfare in Colombia, evidentiary ecologies and senti-actuando practices of justice

Lyons

2018

Soc Stud Sci

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Between 1994 and 2015, militarized aerial fumigation was a central component of USColombia antidrug policy. Crop duster planes sprayed a concentrated formula of Monsanto's herbicide, glyphosate, over illicit crops, and also forests, soils, pastures, livestock, watersheds, subsistence food and human bodies. Given that a national peace agreement was signed in 2016 between FARC-EP guerrillas and the state to end Colombia's over five decades of war, certain government officials are quick to proclaim aerial fumigation of glyphosate an issue of the past. Rural communities, however, file quejas (complaints or grievances) seeking compensation from the state for the ongoing effects of the destruction of their licit agro-forestry. At the interfaces of feminist science and technology studies and anthropology, this article examines how evidentiary claims are mobilized when war deeply politicizes and moralizes technoscientific knowledge production. By ethnographically tracking the grievances filed by small farmers, I reveal the extent to which evidence circulating in zones of war -tree seedlings, subsistence crops, GPS coordinates and bureaucratic documents -retains (or not) the imprints of violence and toxicity. Given the systematic rejection of compensation claims, farmers engage in everyday material practices that attempt to transform chemically degraded ecologies. These everyday actualizations of justice exist both alongside and outside contestation over the geopolitically backed violence of state law. Rather than simply contrasting everyday acts of justice with denunciatory claims made against the state, farmers' reparative practices produce an evidentiary ecology that holds the state accountable while also 'senti-actuando' (feel-acting) alternative forms of justice.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Chemical warfare in Colombia, evidentiary ecologies and senti-actuando practices of justice

Lyons

2018

Soc Stud Sci

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“…For all the analysis of truth commissions and official commemorations as rituals for inaugurating new kinds of democratic politics, many postconflict states continue to be haunted by their preliminal formations. Even in those places that are often cited as paradigmatic by transitional justice advocates—such as Argentina (Vaisman ), Guatemala (Nelson ), and South Africa (Comaroff and Comaroff )—victims continue to see the influence of predecessor regimes on their democratic successors. Nor is this phenomenon limited to recent incidents of mass violence.…”

Section: Conclusion: Toward An Infrastructural Analysis Of Memory Polmentioning

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How Francisco Franco governs from beyond the grave: An infrastructural approach to memory politics in contemporary Spain

Rubin

2018

American Ethnologist

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A B S T R A C TFour decades after the end of the Franco dictatorship, many Spaniards continue to question their country's claims to full democracy. Although Spain is now governed by popularly elected governments, citizens still experience the coercive effects of the dictatorship's policies in their daily interactions with the built environment, state institutions, and even their fellow citizens. These heterogeneous sites through which the dictatorship makes its presence felt constitute an infrastructure of memory that facilitates and impedes the circulation of past experience. In this context, people enact memory politics not only by contesting narratives of the past but also, first and foremost, by disand reassembling the physical, institutional, and social entanglements that undergird democratic politics. [infrastructures, cultural memory, democratic politics, forensic exhumations, archives, Spain] Cuatro décadas después del fin de la dictadura franquista, muchos españoles siguen cuestionando la calificación de su país como democracia plena. Si bien los gobiernos de España son elegidos popularmente, los ciudadanos siguen siendo afectados por las políticas de la dictadura en sus interacciones diarias con el ambiente construido, con las instituciones del estado, e incluso con otros ciudadanos. Estas ubicaciones heterogéneas, a través de las cuales la dictadura hace sentir su presencia, constituyen una infraestructura de la memoria que facilita e impide la circulación de la experiencia del pasado. En este contexto, las políticas de la memoria consisten no sólo en disputar narrativas del pasado, sino principalmente y ante todo en ensamblar y desensamblar los enredos físicos, institucionales y sociales que afianzan la política democrática. [infraestructuras, memoria cultural, política democrática, exhumaciones forenses, archivos, España]

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“…The next sections provide empirical evidence as to how this everyday assemblage between morality and ethics functions. After describing the methods and context of the research, the remainder of this article analyzes how the traumatic home operates in a local context of human rights crimes and psychoanalysis that hopefully sheds a new light on ongoing truth and justice practices in Latin America (Robben ; Méndez ; Vaisman ).…”

Section: Trauma Experience and Moralitymentioning

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Traumatic Home: Argentinian Victimhood and the Everyday Moral Comfort of Trauma

Roekel¹

2018

Ethos

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The renewed anthropological debate on morality has invoked the idea that local moralities can be analyzed through the phenomenological arrangement of moral breakdown, which is followed by a liminal period of performing ethics that reinstates the unreflective moral disposition (i.e., home) of everyday life. The ethnographic example of the heterogeneous group of Argentinian victims of the last military dictatorship (1976–83) illustrates how ongoing ethical performance about trauma produces a reflective way of engaging with and in the world. These ongoing ethical performances are coined as “traumatic home” and constitute an everyday reflective moral disposition. From this local perspective, trauma is an intrinsic aspect of being alive that needs ongoing verbalization and reflection. The enduring traumas become expressible and meaningful by means of ongoing, shared practices of truth telling and informal therapies. Thus, by ongoing expression, trauma also becomes an influential source for everyday moral comfort.

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Variations on Justice: Argentina's Pre- and Post-Transitional Justice and the Justice to Come

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Chemical warfare in Colombia, evidentiary ecologies and senti-actuando practices of justice

Chemical warfare in Colombia, evidentiary ecologies and senti-actuando practices of justice

How Francisco Franco governs from beyond the grave: An infrastructural approach to memory politics in contemporary Spain

Traumatic Home: Argentinian Victimhood and the Everyday Moral Comfort of Trauma

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