Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America

by Susana Draper

During the age of dictatorships, Latin American prisons became a symbol for the vanquishing of political opponents, many of whom were never seen again. In the postdictatorship era of the 1990s, a number of these prisons were repurposed into shopping malls, museums, and memorials. Susana Draper uses the phenomenon of the \u201copening\u201d of prisons and detention centers to begin a dialog on conceptualizations of democracy and freedom in post-dictatorship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082296225X
• ISBN13: 9780822962250
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"