Fifty Years of Human Rights in Chile Essays in Honour of Alan Angell

This book examines the struggle for human rights in Chile since 1973 and celebrates the academic work and activism of Latin Americanist Alan Angell. It analyses Chileans’ collective memory of the Pinochet regime and the role of contemporary opponents of the advancement of human rights. Its focus on a single country allows for a more detailed exploration of memory and human rights than those in comparable treatments of these topics in the Southern Cone.

The book brings together contributors connected to Angell, Oxford University's Latin American Centre and the UK more broadly through their studies, research and personal histories. They include two former ministers in the Boric government, one of whom is a former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Through its unique structure, timing and thematic approach, the book provides valuable insights to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as lecturers and researchers.

1. Memories of Living in Pinochet’s Chile.- 2. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? — A Restless Past.- 3. Alan Angell’s Activism and Scholarship in the Context of the UK’s Response to the Pinochet Dictatorship.- 4. The Pinochet Factor in Democracy (1990–2023).- 5. Memory Disputes in a Polarised Society. 50 Years After the Military Coup in Chile.- 6. The Fifty-years Struggle for Human Rights: The South American Context and The Chilean Transition.- 7. Justice After Pinochet: Cases in Chile post-1998.- 8. The Right Against Rights, by Simón Escoffier, Matías González.- 9. Human Rights Violations in the 2019 Social Outbreak in Chile: Progress and Challenges in Justice and Reparations for Victims.- 10. Chile Scholar with a European Lens.

Valentina Infante Batiste is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES), and VioDemos Millennium Institute, Chile. Her research focuses on cultural memory and difficult heritage in Chile.

Richard D. Wilkinson is a researcher in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His research focuses on non-programmatic politics and political trust at the municipal level in Chile.