Human Rights Activism in Mexico and Brazil
Sun, April 30, 10:00 to 11:45am, TBASession Submission Type: Panel
Abstract
This panel explores the relationship between human rights activism and collective memory at the local, national and transnational levels. We address these themes not only in an interdisciplinary way, but also in a way that disrupts the notion that human rights norms are disseminated from the Global North to the Global South. The three papers focus on the local political contexts motivating human rights activism and two of the papers show how local political action interacted with other human rights movements in the international arena.
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Individual Presentations
Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement 1964-1985 - Anna Grimaldi
Collective Memory and Legitimacy Deficits: The Long-Term Costs of Political Repression in Mexico - Dolores Trevizo, Occidental College
Disclosures of Violence from the Other Mexico: The 1968 Tlatelolco and 2014 Ayotzinapa Student Attacks - Rafael Luevano