Performing Human Rights
Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
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Table of Contents

Contents
PERFORMING HUMAN RIGHTS
Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Liliana Gómez: Performing human rights. An introduction
- BETWEEN LAW AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY
- Zahira Aragüete Toribio: Epistemic encounters amidst impunity: forensic investigations of mass crimes in Post-Franco Spain
- Vikki Bell: Taking the risk of images, after all: between form and formlessness at the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos, ex-ESMA, Argentina
- Liliana Gómez: Beyond the courtroom: on dust, haunting, and the archive
- FORENSIC AESTHETICS AND POLITICS OF MEMORY
- Friederike Pannewick: The poetics and politics of the body in pain. Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer
- Elena Rosauro: To speak of the silence of a country. An approach to Spanish contemporary artistic practices related to history and memory
- Stephenie Young: Boundary-aesthetics: obscured scenographies of violence at the U.S./Mexican Border
- PERFORMING HUMAN RIGHTS
- Joscelyn Jurich: Performing karama: Abounaddara’s emergency cinema in theory and praxis
- Pauline Bachmann: The subversive potential of opacity: Poema/processo and 3Nós3’s artistic strategies during Brazil’s military dictatorship
- Dorota Sajewska: Performing periphery or the ambivalence of demodernization. Notes on Artur Żmijewski’s film Glimpse
- POSTSCRIPTUM
- Uriel Orlow: Letter from Lubumbashi
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