Remembering the rescuers of victims of human rights crimes in Latin America / edited by Marcia Esparza and Carla De Ycaza.

Contributor(s): Esparza, Marcia [editor.] | De Ycaza, Carla [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781498533270 (e-book)Subject(s): Human rights workers -- Latin America | Human rights -- Latin AmericaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Remembering the rescuers of victims of human rights crimes in Latin America.DDC classification: 323.098 LOC classification: JC599.L29 | R46 2017Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: why remember the rescuers in Latin America? / Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernan -- Rescued from fear: the Sebastian Acevedo movement against torture in Chile / Christopher Ney -- Bending the rules: an ambassador's quest to save lives / Pascale Bonnefoy -- The Santo Tomas chichicastenango's municipal firefighters : "Green pines covering the dead bodies" / Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy Sanandres -- Strategic rescue responses to genocide : the Guatemalan case / Roddy Brett -- Between memory and oblivion : the cases of Eureka and Afadem / Isabel de Leon Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam Rodriguez -- From rescue to solidarity : (re) humanizing relationships for social transformation / Jenny Escobar and Angie Tamayo -- Argentine rescuers : a study on the "banality of good" / Jessica Casiro -- Conclusion: on the moral value of rescue and remembering rescuers : conceptualizing rescue in the Latin American context / Jeffrey Blustein -- About the contributors and editors.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: why remember the rescuers in Latin America? / Marcia Esparza and Zachary McKiernan -- Rescued from fear: the Sebastian Acevedo movement against torture in Chile / Christopher Ney -- Bending the rules: an ambassador's quest to save lives / Pascale Bonnefoy -- The Santo Tomas chichicastenango's municipal firefighters : "Green pines covering the dead bodies" / Marcia Esparza, Stephanie Alfaro and Kristy Sanandres -- Strategic rescue responses to genocide : the Guatemalan case / Roddy Brett -- Between memory and oblivion : the cases of Eureka and Afadem / Isabel de Leon Olivares, Maribel Rivas-Vasconcelos and Miriam Rodriguez -- From rescue to solidarity : (re) humanizing relationships for social transformation / Jenny Escobar and Angie Tamayo -- Argentine rescuers : a study on the "banality of good" / Jessica Casiro -- Conclusion: on the moral value of rescue and remembering rescuers : conceptualizing rescue in the Latin American context / Jeffrey Blustein -- About the contributors and editors.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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