Testimonios, discurso experto y comisiones de la verdad

El Contexto De La Denuncia

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ID4447016
AuthorsSilvia Rodríguez Maeso (0000-0003-2607-5206, University of Coimbra, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume48
Issue3
Publication date1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolítica y Sociedad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1130-8001 • E-ISSN: 1988-3129
PublisherUniversidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5209/rev_poso.2011.v48.n3.36422
OpenAlexW2082309792
LanguageES
Citations received6
References cited3

This text analyses Truth Commissions as a political mechanism engaging with two main questions: one, the central role of testimonies in providing both ethical and political legitimacy to truth commissions and information regarding the violation of human rights; two, the work of professionals from law and the social sciences in providing scientific legitimacy and in their position as ‘privileged’ witnesses of the truth-telling process. Throughout the analysis of a specific case —the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission— I discuss the possibilities of scientific knowledge to produce a more complete understanding of “the violence” and the need to question certain interpretative assumptions regarding the political agency of certain populations, in this case, of the Andean rural communities

Agency (philosophy · Commission · Epistemology · Humanities · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Philosophy

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