The age-impunity rhetoric in the trials for crimes committed during the Argentine genocide (1975-1983)
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3500-2781
Adriana Taboada
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Since the reopening of the trials for the crimes committed by the last military dictatorship in Argentina, new aspects have emerged in the judicial scene, one of them being the “age-impunity rhetoric”. In its visual dimension, we understand this rhetoric to mean the representation of the perpetrators that has been taking shape in recent years, enabling them to be exempted from guilt and responsibility for the crimes committed by virtue of their advanced age. We argue that the visual configures a certain aesthetic that provides a scaffolding for impunity and its naturalization, giving rise to a form of impunity that can be termed “gerontological impunity.” In order to enter into the construction of this representation, we will put in tension the pair seen/unseen through photographs and editorials in the written press. Our main theoretical anchor points are the concept of ageism proposed by gerontology and the “formula of martyrdom” that arises from the study of the representations of massacres and genocides developed by José Emilio Burucúa and Nicolás Kwiatkowski.
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trials, impunity, ageism, photography
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