Pitt Latin American #: Amnesty in Brazil

Recompense after Repression, 1895-2010

Pitt Latin American #: Amnesty in Brazil
Ann M Schneider
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h229 x 152mm - 304pg
5 Oct 2021 US
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9780822946939
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Amnesty in Brazil has been both surprisingly democratizing and yet stubbornly undemocratic. This book examines restitution in the aftermath of political persecution. It looks at the politics of conciliation over more than a century and reflects on the Brazilian case in the context of broader debates about transitional justice. Ann M. Schneider is concerned with the course of amnesty and addresses how amnesty evolved and functioned as a political institution. She focuses on the outcomes of amnesty laws in the lives of individuals who ostensibly were beneficiaries and argues that the adjudication of amnesties in Brazil marked points of intersection between prevailing and profoundly conservative politics with moments and trends that galvanized the expansion of civil rights. The citizens seeking restitution shaped amnesty into a vehicle to demand and expand citizenship rights and ultimately into an institution synonymous with restitution itself.

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"Amnesty in Brazil is a masterful overview of the politics of granting political amnesty to rebels and dissidents over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on examples from the First Republic, the Vargas years, and the recent military dictatorship, Schneider offers an important contribution to the study of political reconciliation, restitution, and forgiveness, as well as its limitations, in crucial moments of Brazil' s tumultuous history since the establishment of the republic in 1889. " --James N. Green, Brown University "Schneider offers an outstanding legal and intellectual history of amnesty in Brazil, demonstrating that amnesty has been central to the articulation and defense of rights, from the jurisprudence of Rui Barbosa in the late nineteenth century through the creation of the Amnesty Commission in the early 2000s. The author follows this thread from notable early cases like that of the ' Black Admiral, ' Jose Candido Felisberto, in 1910 through the tireless efforts of Victoria Grabois to free herself from the shadow of the military dictatorship in recent Brazil, illuminating a struggle to define the meaning of amnesty and to fulfill its potential as a ' purveyor of citizen rights. ' This gracefully written book clarifies both the continuities and changes in this trajectory. " --Bryan McCann, Georgetown University
Ann M. Schneider is a historian of Brazil and a specialist on Cold War-era conflicts and the subsequent transitional justice mechanisms utilized throughout Latin America.
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ISBN-13: 9780822946939
Published: 5 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 304

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