{"product_id":"genocide-in-the-neighborhood-state-violence-popular-justice-and-the-escrache-paperback","title":"Genocide in the Neighborhood: State Violence, Popular Justice, and the 'Escrache' - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eColectivo Situaciones\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrian Whitener\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBrian Whitener\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnother justice is possible. \u003ci\u003eGenocide in the Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e documents the theories, debates, successes, and failures of a rebellious tactic to build popular power and transformative justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenocide in the Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e explores the autonomist practice of the \"escrache,\" a series of public shamings that emerged in the late 1990s to honor the lives of those tens of thousands disappeared and exterminated under the Argentinean military dictatorship (1976 to 1983) and to protest the amnesty granted to perpetrators of state violence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of hypotheses and two sets of interviews, Colectivo Situaciones highlights the theories, debates, successes, and failures of the escraches-those direct and decentralized ways to agitate for justice that Brian Whitener defines as \"something between a march, an action or happening, and a public shaming.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGenocide in the Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e also follows the popular Argentine uprising in 2001, a period of intense social unrest and political creativity that led to the collapse of government after government. The power that ordinary people developed for themselves in public space soon gave birth to a movement of neighborhoods organizing themselves into hundreds of popular assemblies across the country, while the unemployed took over streets and workers occupied factories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese events marked a sea change, a before and an after for Argentina that has since resonated around the world. In its wake \u003ci\u003eGenocide in the Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the nature of rebellion, discusses the value of historical and cultural memory to resistance, and tactfully deploys a much-needed model of political resistance that has recently been given new life by feminist groups across Latin America organizing against patriarchal violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColectivo Situaciones\u003c\/b\u003e is a collective of militant researchers based in Buenos Aires. They have participated in numerous grassroots coresearch activities with unemployed workers, peasant movements, neighborhood assemblies, and alternative education experiments. Their other works appear in translation in \u003ci\u003e19 and 20: Notes for a New Insurrection\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGrupo de Arte Callejero: Thought, Practices, Actions\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Common Notions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Whitener\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University at Buffalo and author of \u003ci\u003eCrisis Cultures: The Rise of Finance in Mexico and Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). Other writing or translation projects include \u003ci\u003eFace Down\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e(Timeless Infinite Light, 2016), \u003ci\u003eDe gente com佖: Arte, pol咜ica y rebeld僘 social, \u003c\/i\u003e edited with Lorena M駭dez and Fernando Fuentes (Universidad Automa de la Ciudad de M騙ico, 2013) and the translation of \u003ci\u003eGrupo de Arte Callejero: Thoughts, Actions, Practices\u003c\/i\u003e (Common Notions, 2019). He is an editor at Displaced Press and has been investigating new political and artistic movements in Latin American and autonomist political theory for the past twenty years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 12, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51778400583968,"sku":"9781942173861","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3555f95b92588eb7aebefff80090dd81.webp?v=1780506519","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/genocide-in-the-neighborhood-state-violence-popular-justice-and-the-escrache-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}