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The Right Against Rights
The Legal Mobilization of the Right Against Rights
This editorial introduces a Special Issue of Law & Society Review on right-wing legal mobilization and its role in challenging rights expansions achieved by marginalized groups, including migrants, LGBT+ communities, women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, and human rights victims…
The Right Against Rights
Right-Wing Movements (Latin America)
Confessions to Violence
Perpetrators’ Confessions. Truth, Reconciliation, and Justice in Argentina
Truth-telling has become a widespread practice in settling accounts with past repressive regimes in Latin America. It has also assumed a variety of forms: from government-mandated truth commissions, to non-governmental-organization-sponsored historical memory projects, to individual testimonials. This chapter discusses the potential value of perpetrators’ confessions to truth and reconciliation in countries emerging from authoritarian rule.
Confessions to Violence
Collaborators and the Politics of Memory in Chile
Collaborators –individuals who “cooperate traitorously with an enemy”– are an understudied phenomenon of the recent authoritarian regimes of Latin America. It is not that they were irrelevant: they supplied crucial information to the repressive apparatus and assisted in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of so-called subversives. This article examines four Chilean collaborators’ confessions and the role they played in the politics of memory in Chile.
The Right Against Rights
The Right Against Rights
This chapter examines Chilean right-wing movements that undermine rights and democracy, using framejacking, violence, and social media, and stresses addressing their root causes.
Confessions to Violence
In Search of Remorse: Confessions by Perpetrators of Past State Violence
The paper focuses on the relationship between public confessions by perpetrators of past state authoritarian violence, and reconciliation. This connection functions theoretically: perpetrators of violence admit to what they did and apologize for it. In so doing, they advance the truth about the past and accountability for those crimes
The Right Against Rights
The Right-Wing Backlash in Brazil and Beyond
Who is entitled to have rights? This essay examines how right-wing movements attempt to prevent individuals, especially women and members of LGBT groups, from accessing equal rights through the use of terms such as “moral worth” and “family values”…
Confessions to Violence
Testimonios perturbadores. Ni verdad ni reconciliación en las confesiones de violencia de Estado
What should be done with the confessions of those responsible for crimes against humanity? Should such testimonies be encouraged, so that victims and their families can learn what happened and find a certain peace in knowing the truth? Or should the circulation of such narratives be limited, given that they are based on the perpetrators’ own accounts? This book offers highly suggestive and pertinent answers to these questions through a combination of theoretical reflection and a detailed study of seven confessions made in four countries…
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Nombrarlas para encontrarlas
The study examines women’s disappearances in central Mexico, linking gender, state, and criminal violence, and calls for better coordination and data sharing to strengthen search and justice efforts.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on Information Policies Regarding State Responses to the Disappearance of Persons
The report reveals inconsistent, opaque state data on disappearances in Mexico, showing failures in justice, transparency, and accountability, and urging stronger public information policies to combat impunity and support victims’ rights.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on Criminal Sentences in Cases of Enforced Disappearance at the Federal and State Levels
The report reviews 28 rulings on enforced disappearance in Mexico, revealing limited judicial action, weak investigations, and the need to strengthen courts’ roles in ensuring truth, justice, and victims’ rights.
Overcoming Impunity in Post-Transition Dissapearances
Report on Specialized Prosecutor’s Offices
The report examines Mexico’s specialized prosecutor’s offices on disappearances, highlighting systemic impunity, limited progress, and emerging collaboration between families, collectives, and authorities to strengthen justice.
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