In this Book
- Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities
- Book
- 2002
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
Of the twenty-three Brazilian policemen interviewed in depth for this landmark study, fourteen were direct perpetrators of torture and murder during the three decades that included the 1964-1985 military regime. These "violence workers" and the other group of "atrocity facilitators" who had not, or claimed they had not, participated directly in the violence, help answer questions that haunt today's world: Why and how are ordinary men transformed into state torturers and murderers? How do atrocity perpetrators explain and justify their violence? What is the impact of their murderous deeds—on them, on their victims, and on society? What memories of their atrocities do they admit and which become public history?
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-5
- 1. Violent Lives
- pp. 6-16
- 2. Reconstructing Atrocity
- pp. 17-28
- 3. Locating Torturers and Murderers
- pp. 29-44
- 5. Biography Intersects History
- pp. 63-80
- 6. Personalistic Masculinity
- pp. 81-100
- 7. Bureaucratizing Masculinity
- pp. 101-117
- 8. Blended Masculinity
- pp. 118-135
- 12. Hung Out to Dry
- pp. 210-231
- References
- pp. 269-282
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520928916
Related ISBN(s)
9780520234475
MARC Record
OCLC
53000736
Pages
314
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No