Sample material covering 1) networking initiatives with Amnesty International and the IACHR; 2) US international human rights policy: Argentina and the Carter Administration; 3) semantics and politics: “insurgents,” “guerrillas,” and “terrorists”–Argentina and beyond.

Sample Archive material corresponding to article The Robert J. Cox Online Archive: A Preview (Part I). Human Rights, Civil Society, the Media, and Political Power: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Decades of 1970-1980 & 2010-2020

The papers of R. J. Cox, former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, shed light on two sets of issues: 1. Debates about recent history (e.g., Argentina’s human rights movement vis-a-vis its international correlates; the US/Latin America relationship during the 1970s; the role of the press); 2. Current discussions regarding the weakening of trust i…[Read more]

Chapter from dissertation, Unsettling Interpretations: Reading Practices, Memory, and Politics in Laura Alcoba’s Manèges: petite histoire argentine (2007) [La casa de los conejos/The Rabbit House (2008)], Héctor Abad Faciolince’s Traiciones de la memoria (2009), and Albertina Carri’s Los rubios (2003)