Archives in the Attic: Exile, Activism, and Memory in the Washington Committee for Human Rights in Argentina

dc.contributor.advisorRosemblatt, Karinen_US
dc.contributor.authorPyle, Perrien_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistory/Library & Information Systemsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-01T05:30:43Z
dc.date.available2019-10-01T05:30:43Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractSpurred by the human rights violations committed by the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983), exiled Argentines in Washington, D.C. formed the Washington Committee for Human Rights in Argentina (WCHRA) to facilitate the transnational exchange of information between those under threat in Argentina and political actors in the United States. This thesis outlines the story of the WCHRA through the records they created - kept for nearly forty years in an attic - and oral interviews with former members. The collection consists of letters, testimonies, petitions, and notes that reflect the group’s extensive network and provide insight into how Argentine exile groups inserted themselves into the larger human rights movement. By critically examining how one small group of activists came together, I explore how archival records enhance, challenge, and reveal new insights into the politics of exile, activism, and memory, as seen through the lens of the records they kept.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/xhyw-hnor
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/25071
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLatin American historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLibrary scienceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddictatorshipen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledexileen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhuman rightsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledimmigrationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmemoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtransnationalen_US
dc.titleArchives in the Attic: Exile, Activism, and Memory in the Washington Committee for Human Rights in Argentinaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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