Merilee Grindle is the Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Emerita, at Harvard University and the former director of its David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. She served as president of the Latin American Studies Association and has written or contributed to over a dozen scholarly books. Erin E. Goodman is Associate Director of Programs at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.
This excellent volume makes a clear contribution to the field of
Latin American Studies by bringing together analysis of the
relation between memory and democracy, on the one hand, with
exploration of the unsettledness and complexity of memory, on the
other.
*Jeffrey Rubin, Associate Professor of History, Boston
University*
Reflections on Memory and Democracy is an extraordinary volume, at
once powerful, analytical, and beautiful… The interdisciplinary
nature of this volume, coupled with the extraordinary insider
knowledge of the contributors, has painted a compelling picture of
the difficulties of mobilizing memory in a way that strengthens
democratic institutions, practices, and cultures. More centrally,
the volume demonstrates the importance of human dignity—the dignity
of being remembered—for a high-quality democracy.
*Jocelyn Viterna, Associate Professor of Sociology, Harvard
University*
This collection of essays by journalists, writers and poets;
literary critics, political scientists and historians;
philosophers, economists and linguists transcends disciplinary
boundaries in a felicitous way. It also offers a challenge to
comparative studies, in that apart from its binding focus on Chile
it includes essays on Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Haiti, Mexico and
Colombia. What emerges is a multidirectional view of memory
politics across the continent that allows the reader to draw
inferences between the different national cases discussed and to
recognize fundamental differences between, say, Chile and Brazil,
Argentina and Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.
*ReVista*
The elegantly crafted contributions cover means of historical
memory as diverse as investigative journalism, Mayan oral
histories, and Argentine fiction.
*Foreign Affairs*
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