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Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of ChileTheorising Indifference

Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of Chile: Theorising... [Building on previous theoretical contributions by Aurelio Arteta, Zygmunt Bauman, Claude Giraud, Michael Herzfeld, and Béatrice Hibou, this chapter offers a theory of social indifference. It then conceptualises the phenomenon of indifference to past human rights violations. Since the indifferent do not correspond to a homogeneous social group, four types of indifferent people are explained and characterised: disillusioned, submissive, depoliticised, and resigned indifference. Finally, regarding the impact and consequences of indifference to past human rights violations, it is argued that this social phenomenon facilitates the preservation of the culture of impunity in the present, being an obstacle to the process and mechanisms of transitional justice in a society going through a political transition towards democracy.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of ChileTheorising Indifference

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-88169-6
Pages
37 –64
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-88170-2_2
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Building on previous theoretical contributions by Aurelio Arteta, Zygmunt Bauman, Claude Giraud, Michael Herzfeld, and Béatrice Hibou, this chapter offers a theory of social indifference. It then conceptualises the phenomenon of indifference to past human rights violations. Since the indifferent do not correspond to a homogeneous social group, four types of indifferent people are explained and characterised: disillusioned, submissive, depoliticised, and resigned indifference. Finally, regarding the impact and consequences of indifference to past human rights violations, it is argued that this social phenomenon facilitates the preservation of the culture of impunity in the present, being an obstacle to the process and mechanisms of transitional justice in a society going through a political transition towards democracy.]

Published: Dec 14, 2021

Keywords: Social indifference; Indifference to past human rights violations; Types of indifference; Disillusioned indifference; Submissive indifference; Depoliticised indifference; Resigned indifference

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