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Trials and publics

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AutorRam Natarajan
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TRIALS AND PUBLICS
Ram Natarajan1
In October 2010 in the city of La Plata, Argentina, many years aer
the dictatorship had ended, a trial of some of its torturers culminated
in violence. Aer the tribunal convicted all the defendants and
labeled their actions as genocide, one of the convicted men deed
them. Striding forward on stage, he raised his arms above him and
made the sign of victory. Straightaway, police guards swarmed the
man. Many of the defendants’ families and friends screamed back,
“Go look for the disappeareds’ bones in the paupers’ graveyards.”
A few of the defendants’ supporters in the balcony began to punch
members of the press who shared their space. Still onstage, the four
judges sat silently as these hostilities raged on.
In 2010, attending the trial verdict, I began research on the
aermath of the Argentine dictatorship, trained as an anthropologist.
I started out my research with the question wanting to understand,
anthropologically, what it was to be a represor in the context of state
violence, what it was to have committed violence and then to live
on once the commission of torture and forced disappearances had
ended. In Argentina as in other countries so much of what counts
as violence is slippery because it is bound up with societal, legal,
and political processes that dene which actions count as violence
and which do not, which forms of these violence are legitimate
and which forms are unacceptable, and who counts as a victim and
whose injuries are made to be invisible.
1. Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latin American Studies at the University of
Arkansas. His research and teaching focus on violence, memory, human rights, Latin
America, literature, and law.

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