Discursos, memorias y verdades : Algunas reflexiones acerca del juicio por delitos de lesa humanidad cometidos en la Norpatagonia

La realización del juicio oral y público a los responsables militares de los delitos de lesa humanidad, cometidos en la región del Comahue durante la última dictadura cívico-militar, estuvo caracterizado por una fuerte tensión en los discursos que lo constituyeron. Una tensión dada por cuatro diferentes relatos respecto de lo sucedido durante aquel período de la historia argentina, sobre los cuales, a su vez, se apoyan y construyen las distintas memorias colectivas que se reciben, transmiten, reproducen y reconstruyen con respecto a aquel período. En este artículo, describo cuáles fueron las características de este juicio realizado en la ciudad de Neuquén en 2008, y explico cómo se articularon esos relatos en las exposiciones de las partes en el debate oral. Finalmente, propongo una reflexión acerca de las formas en que la verdad histórica se articula con el derecho y la memoria

Discursos, memorias y verdades : Algunas reflexiones acerca del juicio por delitos de lesa humanidad cometidos en la Norpatagonia

La realización del juicio oral y público a los responsables militares de los delitos de lesa humanidad, cometidos en la región del Comahue durante la última dictadura cívico-militar, estuvo caracterizado por una fuerte tensión en los discursos que lo constituyeron. Una tensión dada por cuatro diferentes relatos respecto de lo sucedido durante aquel período de la historia argentina, sobre los cuales, a su vez, se apoyan y construyen las distintas memorias colectivas que se reciben, transmiten, reproducen y reconstruyen con respecto a aquel período. En este artículo, describo cuáles fueron las características de este juicio realizado en la ciudad de Neuquén en 2008, y explico cómo se articularon esos relatos en las exposiciones de las partes en el debate oral. Finalmente, propongo una reflexión acerca de las formas en que la verdad histórica se articula con el derecho y la memoria

Discursos, memorias y verdades : Algunas reflexiones acerca del juicio por delitos de lesa humanidad cometidos en la Norpatagonia

La realización del juicio oral y público a los responsables militares de los delitos de lesa humanidad, cometidos en la región del Comahue durante la última dictadura cívico-militar, estuvo caracterizado por una fuerte tensión en los discursos que lo constituyeron. Una tensión dada por cuatro diferentes relatos respecto de lo sucedido durante aquel período de la historia argentina, sobre los cuales, a su vez, se apoyan y construyen las distintas memorias colectivas que se reciben, transmiten, reproducen y reconstruyen con respecto a aquel período. En este artículo, describo cuáles fueron las características de este juicio realizado en la ciudad de Neuquén en 2008, y explico cómo se articularon esos relatos en las exposiciones de las partes en el debate oral. Finalmente, propongo una reflexión acerca de las formas en que la verdad histórica se articula con el derecho y la memoria

Pedagogy, police training, D/discourses – “truth” and situated identities and meanings

Qualitative and quantitative methods were used in this research to distinguish the prevailing D/discourses (words, tools, beliefs, thinking styles) in police training and to analyse the ‘discourse-practice’ (Cherryholmes 1988, p.1) framework of policing in a training environment. The manifestations, functions and consequences of the D/discourses raise concerns about the efficacy of training (its doctrinal intent and value versus its educative intent and value) and its implications for individuals’ identity, subjectivity, agency, learning, and “membership” within the policing community. The literature revealed that police training acts as a formally sanctioned vehicle for police culture, subcultures, and D/discourses. This is complicated by (a) the predominance of pedagogical training practices that support a trainer-centred approach and standardised lecture format for training, (b) police training focusing predominantly on law enforcement at the cost of higher-order conceptual skills, and (c) Australian and international studies of police management education which reveal a subculture resistant to theoretical analysis and critical reflection, and a set of unconscious and unchallengeable assumptions regarding police work, conduct, and leadership. A backdrop to this research and findings is the agenda of Australian and New Zealand police services for police to become a profession.

Discourses concerning the truth of the Christian religion and remarks on ecclesiastical history /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Christian's treasure, containing nine discourses on relative duties, and reasons for believing the truth of divine revelation.

"The fourth, fifth and sixth [discourse] are from the sermons of Franklin, and the two last from those of Riddoch. We have thus partly composed the second volume, as well as the first of the labours of others."--Notice of the publishing committee, p. [v]

'Rebellion in the backland': discourse, truth and power

This article sets out to interpret the construction of truth discourse in the War of Canudos, through the classic 'Rebellion in the backland' by Euclides da Cunha. To enrich the research, the articles wrote by Cunha, while he was a war correspondent for the Estado de São Paulo newspaper, will be analyzed, too. Along with the text, the expression “truth-effects” designed by French philosopher Michel Foucault is being used. “Effects of truth” is an expression in reference to the idea of discourses being neither true nor false. In Os sertões, the effects of truth emerge from strategic power disputes amongst the Church, landowners, politicians and a seaside ruling elite that ignores the reality of the poor and forsaken hinterlands. Keywords: discourse, power, truth.

Reflexive professionalism : reclaiming the voice of authority in shaping the discourses of education policy

The nature and value of ‘professionalism’ has long been contested by both producers and consumers of policy. Most recently, governments have rewritten and redefined professionalism as compliance with externally imposed ‘standards’. This has been achieved by silencing the voices of those who inhabit the professional field of education. This paper uses Foucauldian archaeology to excavate the enunciative field of professionalism by digging through the academic and institutional (political) archive, and in doing so identifies two key policy documents for further analysis. The excavation shows that while the voices of (academic) authority speak of competing discourses emerging, with professional standards promulgated as the mechanism to enhance professionalism, an alternative regime of truth identifies the privileged use of (managerial) voices from outside the field of education to create a discourse of compliance. There has long been a mismatch between the voices of authority on discourses around professionalism from the academic archive and those that count in contemporary and emerging Australian educational policy. In this paper, we counter this mismatch and argue that reflexive educators’ regimes of truth are worthy of attention and should be heard and amplified.

An Inconvenient Truth: Barriers to Truth Recovery in the Aftermath of Institutional Child Abuse in Ireland

Contemporary settled democracies, including the United States, England and Wales and Ireland, have witnessed a string of high profile cases of institutional child abuse in both church and state settings. Set against the broader literature on transitional justice, this analysis argues that there are significant barriers to truth recovery within the particular context of historical institutional abuse by the clergy in the Republic of Ireland. In the main, I argue that the frameworks of the inquiries and commissions into historical institutional child abuse are not conducive to truth recovery or the search for justice in dealing with the legacy of an abusive past. It is the church-state relationship which makes the Irish situation noteworthy and unique. The Catholic Church and child care institutions are especially self-protective, secretive and closed by nature and strongly discourage the drawing of attention to any deficiencies in organisational procedures. The nature of the public inquiry process also means that there is often a rather linear focus on accountability and apportioning blame. Collectively, such difficulties inhibit fuller systemic investigation of the veracity of what actually happened and, in turn, meaningful modification of child care policies. The article concludes by offering some thoughts on implications for transitional justice discourses more broadly as well as the residual issues for Ireland and other settled democracies in terms of moving on from the legacy of institutional child abuse.

The brain in the jar : troubling the truths of discourses of adolescent brain development

Ideas about adolescent brains and their development increasingly function as powerful truths in making sense of young people. And it is the knowledge practices of the neurosciences and evolutionary and developmental psychology that are deemed capable of producing what we have come to understand as the evidence on which policy, interventions and education should be built. In effect these discourses reduce young people to little more than a brain in a jar. The paper examines how the evidence about adolescent brains - their volume, and the functioning and activity of different regions - from neuroscience and evolutionary and developmental psychology works as truth. What knowledge practices are used to produce this evidence, or are deemed capable of producing this evidence? What truth claims are able to attach to this evidence? What makes it true and why is it imagined as evidence of something that is true in policy, public and other research settings that are often far removed from where it was produced? I argue that the discourses of adolescent brain development disembody, reduce and simplify the complexities of these figures we know as adolescents. In effect they render the adolescent as a brain in a jar.

ABLE-BODIED WOMANHOOD: DISABILITY AND CORPOREALLY EXCLUSIONARY NARRATIVES IN BLACK AND WHITE WOMEN’S RIGHTS DISCOURSES, 1832-1932

This project is a feminist disability rhetorical analysis of US black and white women’s rights movements from 1832-1932. Guided by Disability and Feminist Theory, it works to identify the presence and use of patterns of disability tropes in women’s rights discourses. From Lucretia Coffin Mott to Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Mary Church Terrell, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Addie Hunton, this project interrogates the rhetorical work of dominant narratives and lesser known voices in women’s rights discourses. I argue that early black and white women’s rights advocates often utilized and repeated a disability rhetoric that relied on disability metaphor, narrative prosthesis, and corporeally exclusionary narratives in order to construct definitions of womanhood. Their insistence on cognitive ability as a marker of “fitness” and “ability” provided the foundation for rights arguments based on ableist assumptions of autonomy and citizenship. I also argue that this use of disability rhetoric relied on and furthered a pervasive ableist ideology present not only in many of these movements, but in US society. In the process, US black and white women’s rights discourses have continually elided women with disabilities from women’s rights discourses because their bodies (physically, cognitively, and/or psychologically) did not meet the ableist prerequisites set for claiming women’s rights during this time period.

Third-sector discourses and the future of (un)employment : skilled labor, new technologies, and the meaning of work

In this paper we analyse a 600,000 word corpus comprised of policy statements produced within supranational, national, state and local legislatures about the nature and causes of(un)employment. We identify significant rhetorical and discursive features deployed by third sector (un)employment policy authors that function to extend their legislative grasp to encompass the most intimate aspects of human association.