Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala

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Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960â€“1996), silence and impunity reigned. That is, until 2005, when human rights investigators stumbled on the archives of the country's National Police, which, at 75 million pages, proved to be the largest trove of secret state records ever found in Latin America.
The unearthing of the archives renewed fierce debates about history, memory, and justice. In Paper Cadavers, Weld explores Guatemala's struggles to manage this avalanche of evidence of past war crimes, providing a firsthand look at how postwar justice activists worked to reconfigure terror archives into implements of social change. Tracing the history of the police files as they were transformed from weapons of counterinsurgency into tools for post-conflict reckoning, Weld sheds light on the country's fraught transition from war to an uneasy peace, reflecting on how societies forget and remember political violence.

Country	USA
Author	Kirsten Weld
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780822376583
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Duke University Press Books
Manufacturer	Duke University Press Books
NumberOfPages	352
PublicationDate	2014-02-26
Publisher	Duke University Press Books
ReleaseDate	2014-02-26
Studio	Duke University Press Books

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions)

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