Herencia y transmisión del testimonio: Perspectivas socio-jurídicas: Donde no habite el olvido

The violation of the most elementary rules of democracy and the rule of law, torture, disappearance, murder and gender violations were common practices in the history of Latin America that lived civic-military dictatorships in the 1970s. Political transitions of the 80-90s promoted institutional reforms to reinforce recovered democracy and transitional justice processes in the name of truth, memory, justice and reparation, which have been taken as a model for the recent peace process in Colombia. This volume includes essays by Italian and foreign scholars who reconstruct these processes from socio-legal perspectives. The forms of testimony that are outlined are works different from those of ‘testimonial literature’ in the strict sense of the term, because they arise from the judicial classrooms and the reports of the truth commissions, and are imposed as truths backed by the performance of jurisprudence, which defends them from the assaults of oblivion and impunity.