Description: Introduction Fear: A Cultural and Political Construct by Juan E. Corradi, Patricia Weiss Fagen, and Manuel Antonio Garret6n PART ONE. FEAR AND AUTHORITARIANISM 1. Fear in Military Regimes: An Overview by Manuel Antonio Garret6n 2. Some People Die of Fear: Fear as a Political Problem by Norbert Lechner PART TWO. CONSTRUCTING CULTURES OF FEAR 3. Repression and State Security by Patricia Weiss Fagen 4. Victims of Fear: The Social Psychology of Repression by Sofia Salimovich, Elizabeth Lira, and Eugenia Weinstein 5. Makers and Guardians of Fear: Controlled Terror in Uruguay by Juan Rial 6. Gender, Death, and Resistance: Facing the Ethical Vacuum by Jean Franco PART THREE. RESOURCES, STRATEGIES, AND CONSTRAINTS: FIGHTING FEAR 7. Resistance to Fear in Chile: The Experience of the Vicaria de la Solidaridad by Hugo Fruhling 8. Fear of the State, Fear of Society: On the Opposition Protests in Chile by Javier Martinez 9. Testimonial Literature and the Armed Struggle in Brazil by Joan Dassin 10. Cultures of Fear, Cultures of Resistance: The New Labor Movement in Brazil by Maria Helena Moreira Alves 11. Youth, Politics, and Dictatorship in Uruguay by Carina Perelli 12. Strategies of the Literary Imagination by Beatriz Sarlo 13. Beyond Fear: Forms of Justice and Compensation by Emilio F. Mignone PART FOUR. A LOOK AHEAD 14. Toward Societies without Fear by Juan E. Corradi Index

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