Overview
- An essential contribution to the understanding of the complex phenomenon of indifference in modern societies
- The first scientific analysis of indifference to systematic and massive human rights violations in a polarized society
- Contributes to the fields of memory studies, transitional justice, political sociology, public policy, and human rights
Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)
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This book contributes to the fields of memory and human rights. It offers a novel and interdisciplinary theory on social indifference, and in particular on the indifference of people to human rights violations committed against certain sectors of society in turbulent times. These theoretical frameworks are explored empirically with respect to the Chilean case. Through a blend of mixed methods, the book explains the causes, characteristics and social consequences of the current indifference of Chileans with respect to the human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-90). The different findings are an invitation to rethink new challenges of transitional justice processes in fragmented societies and to strengthen public policies on human rights.
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“Hugo Rojas have brilliantly accomplished two truly important goals in this excellent book as he provides the reader with a meticulous analysis of the concept of indifference and subsequently, he applies the concept to Chile’s human rights abuses during the Pinochet dictatorship. Analyzing the concept of indifference is essential to understand how dictators’ abuses are often ignored by entire societies and how this indifference contributes to supporting the regime and the impunity of those who commit the crimes. The author not only explains the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of indifference, but avlso provides the readers with both a qualitative and a quantitative analysis of social indifference and its consequences. This pathbreaking work should encourage others to do comparative studies connecting the fields of social indifference and human rights abuses.”
—Silvia Borzutzky, Professor of Political Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hugo Rojas is Professor of Sociology of Law and Human Rights at Alberto Hurtado University and researcher at the Millennium Institute on Violence and Democracy. He holds degrees from Oxford, LSE and the Catholic University of Chile.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of Chile
Authors: Hugo Rojas
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88170-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88169-6Published: 14 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88172-6Published: 15 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88170-2Published: 13 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 203
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations Theory