Jo-Marie Burt
Biographic Data
| ID | 724707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo-Marie Burt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo-Marie |
| FAMILY NAME | Burt |
| SIGNATURE | BURT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Justice We Deserve: War Crimes Prosecutions in Guatemala
Despite persisting impunity, over the past several years Guatemala has made important strides in prosecuting war crimes committed during the internal armed conflict (1960–1996). This article provides an ethnographic account of the 2018 Molina Theissen trial, which resulted in the conviction of four senior military officials for crimes against humanity, aggravated sexual violence, and forced disappearance. An ethnographic study of this critical hu…
Peru’s Turbulent Elections Lay Bare Systemic Crisis: Taking office after a fraught election cycle, President Pedro Castillo must now navigate the fallout of rival Keiko Fujimori’s polarizing efforts t…
Pedro Castillo speaks to supporters during a rally in Lima, Peru, April 27, 2021. (ANGELA PONCE / REUTERS / ALAMY)Forty-three days after Peru’s second-round presidential vote on June 6, 2021, the w
An Era of Terror: Peru’s “dirty war” brought the worst of Cold War militarism and neoliberal violence together in a lethal mix with lasting effects. Nearly two decades after Alberto Fujimori’s downfal…
“He steals, but he gets things done.” “He who has done nothing has nothing to fear.”“It must have happened for a reason.”These commonplace phrases were weaponized under the decade-long dictatorship
From heaven to hell in ten days: The genocide trial in Guatemala
Latin America leads the world in efforts to prosecute perpetrators of gross violations of human rights in domestic courts. Domestic justice offers a number of advantages to international and hybrid tribunals: proceedings take place in close proximity to the site of the atrocities, facilitating victim participation; they are directed by domestic prosecutors and judges, thus contributing to local buy-in; and they can strengthen rule of law and legi…
Case Overturned by Forces of Impunity
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJo-Marie BurtJo-Marie Burt is Director of Latin American Studies at George Mason University
Peruvian Precedent: The Fujimori Conviction and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
(2010). Peruvian Precedent: The Fujimori Conviction and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 6-8
Fujimori on Trial
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJo-Marie BurtJo-Marie Burt teaches politics at George Mason University. She is author of Silencing Civil Society: Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). She is the Washington Office on Latin America’s official observer at the Fujimori trial. Her reports can be viewed at www.wola.org
Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru: Silencing Civil Society
The Shining Path was one of the most brutal insurgencies ever seen in the Western Hemisphere. Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru explores the devastating effects of insurgent viole
Jugando a la política con el terror: El caso del Perú de Fujimori
El artículo no presenta resumen
Quien habla es terrorista: The Political Use of Fear in Fujimori's Peru
Scholarship on the decade-long rule of Alberto Fujimori emphasizes the surprising popularity and support for Fujimori's rule. This essay, which analyzes the politics of fear in Fujimori's Peru, suggests that this presents a partial view of the nature of Fujimori's authority. Drawing on a Gramscian conceptualization of power, it explains how coercion achieved a consensual façade by manipulating fear and creating a semblance of order in a context o…
Plotting Fear: The Uses of Terror in Peru
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJo-Marie BurtJo-Marie Burt is assistant professor of politics at George Mason University. She is co-editor with Philip Maucen, of Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (2004). She also worked as a consultant for the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
La voluntad encarcelada: Las "luminosas trincheras de combate" de Sendero Luminoso del Perú
I would gladly use this book in an introductory class on Latin American politics and history. It manages to convey, in 150 pages, the historical roots of Sendero Luminoso, the Maoist guerrilla movement responsible for more than half of all politically motivated deaths in Peru between 1980 and 2000, while also providing a concise history of its emergence, evolution, and defeat after the 1992 arrest of its main ideologue and strategist, Abimael Guz…
Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform
Minding The Backyard Washington’s Latin America Policy After The Cold War
"Minding The Backyard Washington’s Latin America Policy After The Cold War." NACLA Report on the Americas, 34(3), pp. 6–7
Defending Rights in a Hostile Environment
In the context of authoritarian Peru, a coalition of human rights groups has devised innovative campaigns, using its “moral authority” to place human rights concerns on the political agenda
Truth-Telling and Memory in Postwar Guatemala An Interview with Rigoberta Menchú
(1999). Truth-Telling and Memory in Postwar Guatemala An Interview with Rigoberta Menchu. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 6-10
The Peruvian Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy
Unsettled Accounts Militarization and Memory in Postwar Peru
In postwar Peru, challenging the official version of history is considered tantamount to subversion. As a result, alternative readings of Peru’s recent past have been obscured, and struggles over memory have remained dormant
Newsbriefs
Local NGOs in Peru Devise an Alternative Anti-Poverty Program
"Local NGOs in Peru Devise an Alternative Anti-Poverty Program." NACLA Report on the Americas, 29(6), pp. 34–35
The Struggles of a Self-Built Community
Though they have not yet managed to create a new democratic social order, the residents of Villa El Salvador in Lima did transform a squatter settlement in a vast and inhospitable piece of desert into a liveable community of nearly 300,000 inhabitants
Shining Path After Guzmén
While the Peruvian Armed Forces now has the strategic and tactical initiative, Shining Path—under Comrade Feliciano—has the capacity to dig in at the local level and carry out armed actions of varying intensities
The Dispossessed Look Homeward Peru’s Internal Refugees Organize for Return
From heaven to hell in ten days: The genocide trial in Guatemala
Latin America leads the world in efforts to prosecute perpetrators of gross violations of human rights in domestic courts. Domestic justice offers a number of advantages to international and hybrid tribunals: proceedings take place in close proximity to the site of the atrocities, facilitating victim participation; they are directed by domestic prosecutors and judges, thus contributing to local buy-in; and they can strengthen rule of law and legi…
Quien habla es terrorista: The Political Use of Fear in Fujimori's Peru
Scholarship on the decade-long rule of Alberto Fujimori emphasizes the surprising popularity and support for Fujimori's rule. This essay, which analyzes the politics of fear in Fujimori's Peru, suggests that this presents a partial view of the nature of Fujimori's authority. Drawing on a Gramscian conceptualization of power, it explains how coercion achieved a consensual façade by manipulating fear and creating a semblance of order in a context o…
The Dispossessed Look Homeward Peru’s Internal Refugees Organize for Return
Shining Path After Guzmén
While the Peruvian Armed Forces now has the strategic and tactical initiative, Shining Path—under Comrade Feliciano—has the capacity to dig in at the local level and carry out armed actions of varying intensities
The Struggles of a Self-Built Community
Though they have not yet managed to create a new democratic social order, the residents of Villa El Salvador in Lima did transform a squatter settlement in a vast and inhospitable piece of desert into a liveable community of nearly 300,000 inhabitants
Local NGOs in Peru Devise an Alternative Anti-Poverty Program
"Local NGOs in Peru Devise an Alternative Anti-Poverty Program." NACLA Report on the Americas, 29(6), pp. 34–35
Newsbriefs
Unsettled Accounts Militarization and Memory in Postwar Peru
In postwar Peru, challenging the official version of history is considered tantamount to subversion. As a result, alternative readings of Peru’s recent past have been obscured, and struggles over memory have remained dormant
Truth-Telling and Memory in Postwar Guatemala An Interview with Rigoberta Menchú
(1999). Truth-Telling and Memory in Postwar Guatemala An Interview with Rigoberta Menchu. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 6-10
The Peruvian Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy
Minding The Backyard Washington’s Latin America Policy After The Cold War
"Minding The Backyard Washington’s Latin America Policy After The Cold War." NACLA Report on the Americas, 34(3), pp. 6–7
Defending Rights in a Hostile Environment
In the context of authoritarian Peru, a coalition of human rights groups has devised innovative campaigns, using its “moral authority” to place human rights concerns on the political agenda
Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform
Plotting Fear: The Uses of Terror in Peru
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJo-Marie BurtJo-Marie Burt is assistant professor of politics at George Mason University. She is co-editor with Philip Maucen, of Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (2004). She also worked as a consultant for the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
La voluntad encarcelada: Las "luminosas trincheras de combate" de Sendero Luminoso del Perú
I would gladly use this book in an introductory class on Latin American politics and history. It manages to convey, in 150 pages, the historical roots of Sendero Luminoso, the Maoist guerrilla movement responsible for more than half of all politically motivated deaths in Peru between 1980 and 2000, while also providing a concise history of its emergence, evolution, and defeat after the 1992 arrest of its main ideologue and strategist, Abimael Guz…
Jugando a la política con el terror: El caso del Perú de Fujimori
El artículo no presenta resumen
Quien habla es terrorista: The Political Use of Fear in Fujimori's Peru
Scholarship on the decade-long rule of Alberto Fujimori emphasizes the surprising popularity and support for Fujimori's rule. This essay, which analyzes the politics of fear in Fujimori's Peru, suggests that this presents a partial view of the nature of Fujimori's authority. Drawing on a Gramscian conceptualization of power, it explains how coercion achieved a consensual façade by manipulating fear and creating a semblance of order in a context o…
Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru: Silencing Civil Society
The Shining Path was one of the most brutal insurgencies ever seen in the Western Hemisphere. Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru explores the devastating effects of insurgent viole
Fujimori on Trial
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJo-Marie BurtJo-Marie Burt teaches politics at George Mason University. She is author of Silencing Civil Society: Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). She is the Washington Office on Latin America’s official observer at the Fujimori trial. Her reports can be viewed at www.wola.org
Peruvian Precedent: The Fujimori Conviction and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
(2010). Peruvian Precedent: The Fujimori Conviction and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 6-8
Case Overturned by Forces of Impunity
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJo-Marie BurtJo-Marie Burt is Director of Latin American Studies at George Mason University
From heaven to hell in ten days: The genocide trial in Guatemala
Latin America leads the world in efforts to prosecute perpetrators of gross violations of human rights in domestic courts. Domestic justice offers a number of advantages to international and hybrid tribunals: proceedings take place in close proximity to the site of the atrocities, facilitating victim participation; they are directed by domestic prosecutors and judges, thus contributing to local buy-in; and they can strengthen rule of law and legi…
An Era of Terror: Peru’s “dirty war” brought the worst of Cold War militarism and neoliberal violence together in a lethal mix with lasting effects. Nearly two decades after Alberto Fujimori’s downfal…
“He steals, but he gets things done.” “He who has done nothing has nothing to fear.”“It must have happened for a reason.”These commonplace phrases were weaponized under the decade-long dictatorship
The Justice We Deserve: War Crimes Prosecutions in Guatemala
Despite persisting impunity, over the past several years Guatemala has made important strides in prosecuting war crimes committed during the internal armed conflict (1960–1996). This article provides an ethnographic account of the 2018 Molina Theissen trial, which resulted in the conviction of four senior military officials for crimes against humanity, aggravated sexual violence, and forced disappearance. An ethnographic study of this critical hu…
Peru’s Turbulent Elections Lay Bare Systemic Crisis: Taking office after a fraught election cycle, President Pedro Castillo must now navigate the fallout of rival Keiko Fujimori’s polarizing efforts t…
Pedro Castillo speaks to supporters during a rally in Lima, Peru, April 27, 2021. (ANGELA PONCE / REUTERS / ALAMY)Forty-three days after Peru’s second-round presidential vote on June 6, 2021, the w
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