Editor's introduction

Radical History Review

Volumn , Issue 97, 2007, Pages 1-10

  Grandin, Greg ^a   Klubock, Thomas Miller ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34249659421     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2006-010     Document Type: Editorial

References (12)

1. Carlos Santiago Nino, Radical Evil on Trial (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), 170.
2. Quoted in Lawrence Weschler, A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (New York, 1990), 243-45.
3. José Zalaquett, "Truth Commissions: A Comparative Assessment" (paper presented at an interdisciplinary discussion, Harvard Law School, May 1996), www.law.harvard.edu/programs/HRP /Publications/truth3.html.
4. Carlo Ginzburg, The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice, trans. Antony Shugaar (London: Verso, 1999), 1.2.
5. E. H. Carr, What Is History? (New York: Knopf, 1962), 102.
6. Guatemala's Comisión para el Esclarecimiento Histórico (Historical Clarification Commission) was an exception to the tendency of truth commissions to avoid a rigorous engagement with history. See the discussion in Greg Grandin, "The Instruction of Great Catastrophe: Truth Commissions, National History, and State Formation in Argentina, Chile, and Guatemala," American Historical Review 110 (2005): 46-67.
7. Julie Taylor, "Body Memories: Aide-Memoires and Collective Amnesia in the Wake of the Argentine Terror," in Body Politics: Disease, Desire, and the Family, ed. Michael Ryan and Avery Gordon (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994), 197.
8. Hesitantly so: The TRC's official Web site announces that the commission was "set up by the Government of National Unity to help deal with what happened under apartheid. The conflict during this period resulted in violence and human rights abuses from all sides." See www.doj.gov.za/ trc (accessed May 8, 2006).
9. Nino, Radical Evil, 136.
10. Ibid., 101.
11. See also Kathryn Lee Crawford, "Due Obedience and the Rights of the Victims: Argentina's Transition to Democracy," Human Rights Quarterly 12 (1990): 17-52.
12. See the Web site of the Asian Legal Resource Centre at www.hrli.alrc.net/ mainfile.php/indonleg/131 (accessed August 8, 2006).