Accounting for Violence
Marketing Memory in Latin America

Offers bold new perspectives on the politics of memory in Latin America

On the other hand, too little public exposure may limit awareness of past human-rights atrocities; such awareness may help to prevent their recurrence. Contributors: Rebecca J. Atencio, Ksenija Bilbija, Jo-Marie Burt, Laurie Beth Clark, Cath Collins, Susana Draper, Nancy Gates-Madsen, Susana Kaiser, Cynthia E. Milton, Alice A. Nelson, Carmen Oquendo Villar, Leigh A. Payne, Jose Raman Ruisanchez Serra, Maria Eugenia Ulfe

Foreword: On Memory and Memorials / Luisa Valenzuela (Translated by Catherine Jagoe)
Acknowledgments Introduction: Time is Money:
The Memory Market in Latin America / Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A. Payne
A Prime Time to Remember: Memory Merchandising in Globo's Anos Rebeldes
/ Rebecca Atencio
Accounting for Murder: The Contested Narratives of the Life and Death of Maria Elena Moyano
/ Jo-Marie Burt
Trauma Tourism in Latin America / Laurie Beth Clark and Leigh A. Payne
The Business of Memory: Reconstructing Torture Centers as Shopping Malls and Tourist Sites / Susana Draper
Marketing and Sacred Space: The Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires
/ Nancy Gates-Madsen
Reading '68: The Tlatelolco Memorial and Gentrification in Mexico City / Jose Ramon Ruisanchez Serra
Promoting Peru: Tourism and Post-Conflict Memory / Cynthia Milton and Maria Eugenia Ulfe
The Moral Economy of Memory: Public and Private Commemorative Space in Post-Pinochet Chile / Cath Collins
Dress for Success:
Fashion, Memory, and Media Representation of Augusto Pinochet / Carmen Oquendo Villar
Tortured by Fashion:
Making Memory through Corporate Advertising / Ksenija Bilbija
Memory Inventory:
The Production and Consumption of Memory Goods in Argentina / Susana Kaiser
Conclusion. Marketing Discontent: The Political Economy of Memory in Latin America / Alice A. Nelson Bibliography
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