Politics of Impunity: Torture, The Armed Forces and the Failure of Justice in Brazil (Advances in Critical Military Studies) - Softcover

Furtado, Henrique Tavares

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474491510 ISBN 13: 9781474491518

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

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Politics of Impunity investigates the failure of the anti-impunity agenda in Brazil, from the release of the truth commission report denouncing the crimes of the military regime (1964-1985) in 2014, to the election of the former-paratrooper and far-Right leader Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Connecting debates on critical military studies, transitional justice and memory studies, the book moves beyond the conditions of implementation of accountability measures. It examines the conditions of possibility of the global anti-impunity agenda: when, how and why the question of impunity came to dominate debates on large-scale political violence. Drawing lessons from the Brazilian case, the book provides a new reading of transitional justice, investigating alternative ways of understanding militarism in the absence of warfare. It reveals the ways in which narratives of accountability and the memory of militarism work to demarcate and restrict what counts as unacceptable violence, who counts as victims/perpetrators and what counts as reasonable forms of justice and resistance.

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Henrique Tavares Furtado is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the West of England. He has published numerous journal articles and this will be his first monograph.

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A critical analysis of struggles for accountability and the resurgence of militarism in BrazilPolitics of Impunity investigates the failure of the anti-impunity agenda in Brazil, from the release of the truth commission report denouncing the crimes of the military regime (1964-1985) in 2014, to the election of the former-paratrooper and far-Right leader Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. Connecting debates on critical military studies, transitional justice and memory studies, the book moves beyond the conditions of implementation of accountability measures. It examines the conditions of possibility of the global anti-impunity agenda: when, how and why the question of impunity came to dominate debates on large-scale political violence.Drawing lessons from the Brazilian case, the book provides a new reading of transitional justice, investigating alternative ways of understanding militarism in the absence of warfare. It reveals the ways in which narratives of accountability and the memory of militarism work to demarcate and restrict what counts as unacceptable violence, who counts as victims/perpetrators and what counts as reasonable forms of justice and resistance.Henrique Tavares Furtado is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of the West of England.

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• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1474491510
• ISBN 13: 9781474491518
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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