DEMOCRACY IN CHILE TODAY

THE LEGACY OF 9/11, 1973

 

London: Sussex Academic Press, 2005

Winner of the MACLAS Arthur P. Whitaker Prize for best book

 

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Table of Contents

Preface by Marjorie Agosín (Wellesley College)

 

Introduction: Three Decades after the "Other" 9/11

Silvia Nagy-Zekmi (Villanova University) and Fernando Leiva (SUNY at Albany)

 

Part I.  USA/CHILEAN RELATIONS

EMPIRE, INTERVENTION AND HISTORICAL MEMORY

(Nagy-Zekmi - Leiva)

 

"Finding the Pinochet File: Pursuing Truth, Justice, and Historical Memory Through Declassified US Documents"

Peter Kornbluh (National Security Archive, George Washington University)

 

"Chile and the United States Thirty Years Later: Return of the Repressed?"

 Steven Volk (Oberlin College)

 

“Small Earthquakes and Major Eruptions: Anglo-Chilean Cultural Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”

 Kevin Foster (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)

 

Part II. LEGACIES

NEOLIBERAL RESTRUCTURING OF THE ECONOMY AND SOCIETY

(Nagy-Zekmi - Leiva)

 

“Integration Without Real Participation: The Chilean Labor Movement”

Volker Frank (University of North Carolina at Asheville) 

 

"From Pinochet's State Terrorism to the 'Politics of Participation'"

Fernando I. Leiva (SUNY Albany)

 

“Sustainable Development or Sustained Conflict? Logging Companies, Neoliberal Policies and Mapuche Communities in Chile”

Diane Haughney (Bates College)

 

“Higher Education in Chile Thirty Years After: Privatization, Mass Education, Profits and Exclusion”

 Patricia Tomic and Ricardo Trumper (University of British Columbia, Canada)

 

Part III. CHALLENGES

HUMAN RIGHTS, IMPUNITY AND DEMOCRATIZATION OF SOCIETY

(Nagy-Zekmi - Leiva)

 

“Pinochet: A Study in Impunity”

Mark Ensalaco,  (University of Dayton)

 

“Alternative ‘pasts’ in the post-Pinochet Chile: the Relation of History/Fiction and the Subjectification of History”

 Ornella Lepri Mazzuca, (SUNY Dutchess College)

 

“Ephemeral Histories: Public Art and Political Practice in Chile, 1970-1973”

Camilo Trumper (University of California, Berkeley) 

 

"Remembering the Future: The Narrative Politics of José Miguel Varas”

 Gregory J Lobo (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia)

 

“The Marginal on the Inside: Nannies and Maids in Chilean Cultural Production (1982-2000)"

 Julia Carroll, (Emory University)  

      

Part IV. CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS

REPRESSION AND SHIFTING SUBJECTIVITIES

(Nagy-Zekmi - Leiva)

 

“Exporting Chile: Film and Literature After 1973”

Amy A. Oliver (American University)

 

“Me moría: Aesthetics, Documentary and the Creation of Nostalgia in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, memoria obstinada”

 Jeffrey Middents R., (American University)

 

"Reception and Censorship of a Chilean Documentary: The Plight of Fernando Is Back”

Kristine Sorensen, (Indiana University)

 

“Re/coiling Inscription: Incisive Moments in Diamela Eltit and Jacques Derrida”

 Andrea Bachner (Harvard University)

 

EPILOGUE

 

“The Struggle for Truth and Justice in Chile and the Challenges of Democracy”

 Fabiola Letelier (Memoria y Justicia, Santiago, Chile)

 

Index

 

 


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