The Struggle for the Past

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The Struggle for the Past is written by Elizabeth Jelin and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1789207835 (ISBN 10) and 9781789207835 (ISBN 13).

In all societies—but especially those that have endured political violence—the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always intertwined with present-day cultural and political circumstances. Organized around the Argentine experience since the 1970s within the broader context of the Southern Cone and international developments, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory’s dynamic social character. In addition to its analysis of how human rights movements have inflected public memory and democratization, it gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field of inquiry, lucidly recounting the author’s own intellectual and personal journey during these decades.