The Wars inside Chile's Barracks - Remembering Military Service under Pinochet (Paperback, Reissue Ed.)

Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award (Social Sciences) of the Southern Cone Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association. From 1973 to 1990 in Chile, approximately 370,000 young men mostly from impoverished backgrounds were conscripted to serve as soldiers in Augusto Pinochet's violent regime. Some were brutal enforcers, but many themselves endured physical and psychological abuse, survival and torture training, arbitrary punishments, political persecution, and forced labor. Leith Passmore examines the emergence, in the early twenty-first century, of a movement of ex-conscripts seeking reparations. The former soldiers challenged the politics of memory that had shaped Chile's truth and reconciliation efforts, demanding recognition of their own broken families, ill health and incapacity to work, and damaged sense of self. Relying on unpublished material, testimony, interviews, and field notes, Passmore locates these individuals' narratives of victimhood at the intersection of long-term histories of patriotism, masculinity, and cyclical poverty. These accounts reveal in detail how Pinochet's war against his own citizens as well as the "almost-wars" with neighboring Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina were also waged inside Chile's army barracks.

General

Imprint:	University of Wisconsin Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Human Rights
Release date:	2020
Authors:	Leith Passmore
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	312
Edition:	Reissue Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-299-31524-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
LSN:	0-299-31524-X
Barcode:	9780299315245

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