Constructing Democracy: Human Rights, Citizenship, and Society in Latin America

Abstract

Introduction: Human Rights and the Construction of Democracy (Elizabeth Jelin and Eric Hershberg.) Settling Accounts With The Past: Human Rights In Processes Of Regime Transition Adjusting the Armed Forces to Democracy: Successes, Failures, and Ambiguities in the Southern Cone (Carlos H. Acua and Catalina Smulovitz.) Human Rights in Democratization Processes (Manuel Antonio Garretn.) The International Scene: Networks And Discourses The Emergence, Evolution, and Effectiveness of the Latin American Human Rights Network: (Kathryn Sikkink.) The Looting of Democratic Discourse by the Guatemalan Military: Implications for Human Rights (Jennifer Schirmer.) Citizenship In Democracy: Some Conceptual Issues Citizenship Revisited: Solidarity, Responsibility, and Rights (E. Jelin.) The State, the Market, and Democratic Citizenship (Fbio Wanderley Reis.) Structures Of Discrimination: Individual And Collective Rights Indigenous Rights: Some Conceptual Problems (Rodolfo Stavenhagen.) Racial Inequalities in Brazil and Throughout Latin America: Timid Responses to Disguised Racism (Carlos Hasenbalg.) Women, Gender, and Human Rights (E. Jelin.) Crime and Individual Rights: Reframing the Question of Violence in Latin America (Teresa P.R. Caldeira. ) Conclusion Convergence and Diversity: Reflections on Human Rights (E. Jelin and E. Hershberg.).