Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Feierstein, Daniel E.
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1983-2015
Idioma
spa
Extent
327 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
1983-2015
Abstract
The problem of repairing criminal acts carried out by representatives of the State against its own population has gained an unprecedented momentum after crimes commited by Nazism during World War II. Since then, within the framework of the configuration of a Human Rights regime in international society, various approaches have been developed to specify the scope of reparation, which have converged in recent decades in the perspective of transitional justice.
In dialogue with these approaches, the purpose of this thesis is to comprehend the reparation of State crimes perpetrated in Argentina in the framework of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), based on the analysis of the multiplicity of reparation measures implemented between 1983 and 2015. These crimes are conceived as a genocide whose objective was the transformation of the essential forms of life in a society through extermination and terror. Reparation is part of the reconstruction process that takes place in post-genocidal society after having gone through the experience of annihilation, and is part of ideological disputes that social groups develop to give meaning to state violence, which find a privileged place for its expression in the State.
From this perspective, at a first level of analysis, the thesis addresses the multiplicity of measures implemented by the State within its institutions with the aim of repairing the crimes it once committed, conceptualized as reparatory practices. From its characterization and analysis, a periodization is constructed in which three reparatory constellations are identified in the course of the period addressed. In each period there were constructed differential representations about reparations, based on the particular dynamics between compensatory practices –which involve the granting of a sum of money to the victims as economic compensation for the damages suffered- and practices of judging those responsible for the crimes perpetrated.
From the weighting of compensation practices for understanding reparation, a second level of analysis has been delimited, aimed at building new knowledge about them. For this purpose, it was first reconstructed the historical evolution of its development, based on the elaboration of a database that arises from the records referred to the implementation of the “Reparatory Laws”. Representations that underlie compensation practices were analyzed then in relation to three themes: a) money as the instrument of reparation; b) the configuration of the universe of victims as subjects of reparation; and c) the damage that the indemnities seek to repair. Addressing these dimensions in terms of representations implies considering them as an ideology indicators, which is expressed in certain institutions and practices. Representations are also differential according to fundamental hegemonic social relations within a specific society. From this perspective, this research aims to address the issue of reparation within the social framework in which it takes place, and articulate compensation practices and their representations with the possible ways in which society understands, explains and makes sense to the genocidal experience.
In dialogue with these approaches, the purpose of this thesis is to comprehend the reparation of State crimes perpetrated in Argentina in the framework of the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), based on the analysis of the multiplicity of reparation measures implemented between 1983 and 2015. These crimes are conceived as a genocide whose objective was the transformation of the essential forms of life in a society through extermination and terror. Reparation is part of the reconstruction process that takes place in post-genocidal society after having gone through the experience of annihilation, and is part of ideological disputes that social groups develop to give meaning to state violence, which find a privileged place for its expression in the State.
From this perspective, at a first level of analysis, the thesis addresses the multiplicity of measures implemented by the State within its institutions with the aim of repairing the crimes it once committed, conceptualized as reparatory practices. From its characterization and analysis, a periodization is constructed in which three reparatory constellations are identified in the course of the period addressed. In each period there were constructed differential representations about reparations, based on the particular dynamics between compensatory practices –which involve the granting of a sum of money to the victims as economic compensation for the damages suffered- and practices of judging those responsible for the crimes perpetrated.
From the weighting of compensation practices for understanding reparation, a second level of analysis has been delimited, aimed at building new knowledge about them. For this purpose, it was first reconstructed the historical evolution of its development, based on the elaboration of a database that arises from the records referred to the implementation of the “Reparatory Laws”. Representations that underlie compensation practices were analyzed then in relation to three themes: a) money as the instrument of reparation; b) the configuration of the universe of victims as subjects of reparation; and c) the damage that the indemnities seek to repair. Addressing these dimensions in terms of representations implies considering them as an ideology indicators, which is expressed in certain institutions and practices. Representations are also differential according to fundamental hegemonic social relations within a specific society. From this perspective, this research aims to address the issue of reparation within the social framework in which it takes place, and articulate compensation practices and their representations with the possible ways in which society understands, explains and makes sense to the genocidal experience.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales