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