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Of Light and Struggle - Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay (Hardcover)
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Of Light and Struggle - Social Justice, Human Rights, and Accountability in Uruguay (Hardcover)
Series: Power, Politics, and the World
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During the country's dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayans
suffered under crushing repression, which included the highest rate
of political incarceration in the world. In Of Light and Struggle,
Debbie Sharnak explores how activists, transnational social
movements, and international policymakers collaborated and clashed
in response to this era and during the country's transition back to
democratic rule. At the heart of the book is an examination of how
the language and politics of human rights shifted over time as a
result of conflict and convergence between local, national, and
global dynamics. Sharnak examines the utility and limits of human
rights language used by international NGOs, such as Amnesty
International, and foreign governments, such as the Carter
administration. She does so by exploring tensions between their
responses to the dictatorship's violations and the grassroots
struggle for socioeconomic rights as well as new social movements
around issues of race, gender, religion, and sexuality in Uruguay.
Sharnak exposes how international activists used human rights
language to combat repression in foreign countries, how local
politicians, unionists, and students articulated more expansive
social justice visions, how the military attempted to coopt human
rights language for its own purposes, and how broader debates about
human rights transformed the fight over citizenship in renewed
democratic societies. By exploring the interplay between debates
taking place in activists' living rooms, presidential
administrations, and international halls of power, Sharnak uncovers
the messy and contingent process through which human rights became
a powerful discourse for social change, and thus contributes to a
new method for exploring the history of human rights. By looking at
this pivotal period in international history, Of Light and Struggle
suggests that discussions around the small country on the Rio de la
Plata had global implications for the possibilities and constraints
of human rights well beyond Uruguay's shores.
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