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Accounting for Violence offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences provide in-depth analyses of the political economy of memory in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay, countries that emerged from authoritarian rule in the 1980s and 1990s. The contributors take up issues of authenticity and commodification, as well as the "never again" imperative implicit in memory goods and memorial sites. They describe how bookstores, cinemas, theaters, the music industry, and television shows (and their commercial sponsors) trade in testimonial and fictional accounts of the authoritarian past; how tourist itineraries have come to include trauma sites and memorial museums; and how memory studies has emerged as a distinct academic field profiting from its own journals, conferences, book series, and courses. The memory market, described in terms of goods, sites, producers, marketers, consumers, and patrons, presents a paradoxical situation. On the one hand, commodifying memory potentially cheapens it. On the other hand, too little public exposure may limit awareness of past human-rights atrocities; such awareness may help to prevent their recurring.Contributors. Rebecca J. Atencio, Ksenija Bilbija, Jo-Marie Burt, Laurie Beth Clark, Cath Collins, Susana Draper, Nancy Gates-Madsen, Susana Kaiser, Cynthia E. Milton, Alice A. Nelson, Carmen Oquendo Villar, Leigh A. Payne, José Ramón Ruisánchez Serra, Maria Eugenia Ulfe

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Feminism and the State -- 1. Feminist Politics in Contemporary Chile. From the Democratic Transition to Bachelet -- 2. Gender Quotas, Candidate Selection, and Electoral Campaigns 45 Comparing Argentina and Brazil -- 3. Feminist Activism in a Changing Political Context Venezuela -- Part II. Legal Strategies and Democratic Institutions -- 4. The Effectiveness of Legal Strategies in Argentina -- 5. Violence against Women in Brazil. International Litigation and Local Adva nces -- 6. Gender and Human Rights. Lessons from the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Part III. International and Cross-Border Activism -- 7. International Feminisms. The World Social Forum -- 8. Social Accountability and Citizen Participation. Are Latin American Governments Meeting Their Commitments to Gender Equity -- 9. Violence and Activism at the Mexico-United States Border. Women, Migration, and Obstacles to Justice -- 10. Feminist Activism and the Challenges of Democracy -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction City/Art: Setting the Scene -- Part 1 Urban Designs -- What is a City? -- Buenos Aires is (Latin) America, Too -- The Spirit of Brasília: Modernity as Experiment and Risk -- Part 2 Street Signs -- City, Art, Politics -- The Writing on the Wall: Urban Cultural Studies and the Power of Aesthetics -- Miami Remake -- The Jew in the City: Buenos Aires in Jewish Fiction -- Part 3 Traffic -- On Maps and Malls -- Culture-Based Urban Development in Rio de Janeiro -- Latin American Megacities: The New Urban Formlessness -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Cover; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, Maps and Boxes; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Where is Latin America?; Dependency and Beyond; Politics of Transformation; Paths to Modernity; 2 Settings; Physical; Demographic; Social; Economic; 3 History; Beyond Oligarchy; Nation-statism; Military Authoritarianism; Re-democratization; 4 Political Economy; Dependent Development; State-led Industrialization; The Neo-liberal Model; Post-Washington Consensus; 5 Society; Social Structures; Social Relations; Urbanization ; Poverty and Welfare; 6 Politics; Consolidation; Disenchantment.

This title authoritatively recounts the main events in the history of Latin America and highlights the men and women who played key roles in the establishment and growth of the region. Though long inhabited only by various Amerindian tribes, Latin America was transformed by the arrival of Europeans, who built colonial empires across the region beginning in the sixteenth century. Much of Latin America secured its independence in the early nineteenth century, but the new countries were plagued by political and economic instability, some of which continues today. Readers will get a full picture of Latin America's complex history and an understanding of how it affects the present-day region