... razaka r testimonial cultures feminist oral history 1971 ...

...), the introduction shows how both, as memories of a past, are shaping the present. It draws from and engages critically with the scholarship of feminist oral history. The chapter develops the analytical and theoretical concepts of “testimonial cultures,” “combing” (to hide and to search), “absence-presence...

... This chapter considers the bureaucratic and legal culture of the courtroom, including what constituted evidence. It argues that the power vested in the presentation of documents, including brands on faces and bodies, and the testimonies of expert witnesses resulted in the creation of legal...

... In this chapter, Khader enlists Slavoj Žižek’s trenchant critique of multiculturalism in order to reclaim the internationalist trajectory of postcolonial feminist literature. Khader argues that despite his criticisms of postcolonial theory’s culturalization of politics by way of an identitarian...

... that this theatrical convention associated with the professional reporter has been transformed into a humanitarian testimonial convention. The chapter undertakes a comparative analysis of Anderson Cooper’s live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and Trouble the Water (2008), a film featuring live eyewitness footage...

... lives as children, the memories of their mothers and grandmothers, and everyday life on haciendas around La Paz and Lake Titicaca before the agrarian reform of 1953, which overturned the hacienda regime. The testimonies depict the lives of women tied to the land, livestock, and artisanal manufacturing...

... own torturers and remained silent. After the war, she was assigned an important job in the restructuring of society, that of founding and running an arts institution with the goal of shattering the cultural blockade. She was enormously successful, but plagued by periodic bouts of depression...

... labor, cooking, and eating. Her life on the hacienda, which began with her “arranged” marriage to a tenant peasant farmer, was one of sustained suffering and deprivation, from which she was only partially liberated by the death of her husband and her return to her community of origin. This testimony...

... constant conflicts. The following testimony by peasants in 2002–3 in the Chapare, where the repression of coca producers was heaviest, conveys some of the human costs of these policies and the resentment they generated at the local level. ...

..., the first time democratically elected offcials and military offcers were convicted of using lethal force to put down a social protest. The trial generated a great body of testimony by prominent public figures, those wounded, and family members of the deceased. The offcial report of Etelvina Ramos Mamani’s...

...Tensions Kelly Gillespie analyzes the conditions under which her testimony was requested at a commission investigating police brutality in the township of Khayelitsha in South Africa. While she was expected to confirm the commonsense idea according to which the development of vigilantism...

..., their Aymara neighbors see them as beings who are associated with a lack of civilization and a pre-baptismal era. The testimony of the Uru Murato elder and leader Daniel Moricio tells of his ancestors’ encounter with the Spaniards, whom he refers to almost indistinctly from the Aymara and Quechua...

... a Trotskyist and a colleague of Tristán Marof, and he later joined the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ), before his death in 1947. He argued that regional conflicts were not a cultural or racial problem, and that the complementary integration of east and west would overcome the historically skewed...