The Winding Currents of Justice in the Rio de la Plata Region, 1570-2021: A Few Reflections on Darío G. Barriera’s Historia y justicia
This review essay offers an overview of the content and methodology of the monograph Historia y Justicia: cultura, política y sociedad en el Río de la Plata (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2019) by Darío Barriera. It traces the books’ three large sections on the development of a social history of justice...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2022
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| Sumario: | This review essay offers an overview of the content and methodology of the monograph Historia y Justicia: cultura, política y sociedad en el Río de la Plata (Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2019) by Darío Barriera. It traces the books’ three large sections on the development of a social history of justice in Argentina, the undertakings of various types of Rio de la Plata´s officials within a dynamic spatial, institutional, and social context, and the cultural and conceptual contexts of local justice. The essay highlights three methodological key approaches to Barriera’s work: agents, actions, and spaces. It then reflects on the author’s vision of Argentina’s essence, questioning the implicit and explicit diagnosis of an ossified nation, on one hand, and of its dynamic and fluid past, on the other. It asks: is ‘the colonial’ a destiny for Latin America – a gnarled version of the West’s ‘End of History’? |
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