The Fate of Many, the Brutality of Others: Human Rights Documentation and the Margins of Subjectivity in El Salvador

Autor/in	Ramirez, Mario Hugo
Titel	The Fate of Many, the Brutality of Others: Human Rights Documentation and the Margins of Subjectivity in El Salvador
Quelle	(2017), (279 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-3555-3448-1
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Civil Rights; Violence; Victims; Foreign Countries; Discourse Analysis; Juvenile Gangs; News Reporting; Video Technology; War; Organizations (Groups); Case Studies; Archives; Disadvantaged; Political Attitudes; Power Structure; Social Influences; Activism; Punishment; El Salvador + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Gewalt; Victim; Opfer; Ausland; Diskursanalyse; Jugendbande; News report; Reportage; Krieg; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Archivwesen; Archiv; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Sozialer Einfluss; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Bestrafung
Abstract	Taking a critical archival studies approach, this dissertation engages critical discourse analysis as a means of analyzing the analogous treatment and representation of political dissidents from the civil war and alleged gang members in post-conflict El Salvador through the medium of human rights documentation. By analyzing a cross section of records, including case files, reports, videos and newspapers from three nongovernmental human rights organizations (the Comision de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador, the Fundacion de Estudios para la Aplicacion del Derecho and Servicio Social Pasionista) and one dedicated archival repository (Centro de Informacion, Documentacion y Apoyo a la Investigacion) in San Salvador, El Salvador, it plots the recurrent discursive formations that evoke the socio-political and cultural marginality of those targeted for human rights violations. Furthermore, this dissertation examines how human rights records engender a critical reflection on continuities of violence in the country that perpetuate these parallel discourses of ontological expendability for those "victims" of human rights violations deemed most abject to the body politic, and on the persistence of discourses of social and political subversion. It poses an argument for "subversion" as a power inflected, multi-faceted and ideologically perpetuated discourse that is evident in human rights records and popular texts that cuts across both the civil war and post-conflict era in El Salvador, and has material repercussions that are embodied in socially and politically sanctioned human rights violations and abuses. In addition, it maintains that human rights records are critical tools in combating the dehumanization of victims, in disinterring standard definitions of the "human" in human rights and in providing an avenue towards subjectivity that contradicts the silencing and ontological erasure of individuals. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01