04425nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-75060-1 DE-He213 20251030114617.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241214s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031750601 978-3-031-75060-1 10.1007/978-3-031-75060-1 doi JZ6378-6405 JW bicssc POL069000 bisacsh JW thema Natale, Eleonora. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 88907 Military Families, Political Violence, and Transitional Justice in Argentina [electronic resource] : Perpetrators Within? / by Eleonora Natale. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XII, 247 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Rethinking Political Violence, 2752-8596 Introduction: Chapter 1 Kinship, violence and the military -- Chapter 2 Home and barrack: life in the 1970s -- Chapter 3 Under siege: the age of the trials -- Chapter 4 The perpetrator’s kin -- Conclusion. Perpetrators within? provides the first ethnographic account of the experiences of military families of the Argentine dictatorship (1976-83). At the crossover of multiple disciplines, this groundbreaking study brings advancements in the fields of military and conflict studies, Latin American history, transitional justice and ethnographic methods. The military juntas that seized power in Argentina in 1976 waged a brutal 'dirty war' against communism, leading to seven years of authoritarian rule that claimed thousands of lives. The regime suppressed political opposition through kidnapping, torture, and clandestine executions. Although efforts to bring the military to justice began in 1985, legal obstacles delayed prosecutions for over 20 years. It wasn't until 2005 that trials resumed, resulting in the conviction of hundreds of former officers for crimes committed during the dictatorship. Perpetrators within? questions these unique subjects directly. For the first time, the military of the dictatorship are approached as a community of families and comrades (which includes spouses, children and ‘brothers in arms’) better to understand the personal and collective experiences of those linked to the regime's violent past. Based on extensive research with former junior officers –many now imprisoned – their wives and adult children, the book unveils the social and family life of the military of the 1970s, it investigates the everyday unexceptional scenarios of repression, and it describes the long road to justice from the point of view of military families involved in the trials. A vital contribution to understanding the workings of kinship, military power and violence, this book offers a deeper ad original perspective on one of the darkest chapters in Latin American history. Eleonora Natale is Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She is an experienced ethnographer and political scientist working on violence, conflict and militarisation in Latin America. Politics and war. 68300 Peace. 60021 Ethnology. 58687 Latin America History. 76516 Political science. 58714 Military and Defence Studies. 68301 Peace and Conflict Studies. 68596 Ethnography. 70800 Latin American History. 76518 Politics and International Studies. 70610 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031750595 Printed edition: 9783031750618 Printed edition: 9783031750625 Rethinking Political Violence, 2752-8596 88908 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-75060-1 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 65700 65700