Battling for Hearts and Minds: Memory Struggles in Pinochet's Chile, 1973-1988 (Latin America Otherw

In the 1970s, Chilean dissidents were lonely “voices in the wilderness” insisting that state terror and its victims be recognized and remembered. By the 1980s, the dissent had spread, catalyzing a mass movement of individuals who revived public dialogue by taking to the streets, creating alternative media, and demanding democracy and human rights. Despite long odds and discouraging defeats, people of conscience—victims of the dictatorship, priests, youth, women, workers, and others—overcame fear and succeeded in creating truthful public memories of state atrocities. Recounting both their efforts and those of the regime’s supporters to win the battle for Chileans’ hearts and minds, Stern shows how profoundly the struggle to create memories, to tell history, matters.

Battling for Hearts and Minds is the second volume in the trilogy The Memory Box of Pinochet’s Chile. The third book will examine Chileans’ efforts to achieve democracy while reckoning with Pinochet’s legacy.

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• Origins of American Social Science (Ideas in Context)
• Freud in the Pampas: The Emergence and Development of a Psychoanalytic Culture in Argentina
• Reckoning with Pinochet: The Memory Question in Democratic Chile, 1989-2006 (Latin America Otherwise)
• Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
• The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language
• Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History (Stuart Hall: Selected Writings)
• Lucrecia's Dreams
• A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet (Norton Paperback)
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History