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In Dissensual Subjects, Andrew C. Rajca combines cultural studies and critical theory to explore how the aftereffects of dictatorship have been used to formulate dominant notions of human rights in the present. In so doing, he critiques the exclusionary nature of these processes and highlights who and what count (and do not count) as subjects of human rights as a result.0Through an engaging exploration of the concept of "never again" (nunca más/nunca mais) and close analysis of photography exhibits, audiovisual installations, and other art forms in spaces of cultural memory, the book explores how aesthetic interventions can suggest alternative ways of framing human rights subjectivity beyond the rhetoric of liberal humanitarianism. The book visits sites of memory, two of which functioned as detention and torture centers during dictatorships, to highlight the tensions between the testimonial tenor of permanent exhibits and the aesthetic interventions of temporary installations there. Rajca thus introduces perspectives that both undo common understandings of authoritarian violence and its effects as well as reconfigure who or what are made visible as subjects of memory and human rights in postdictatorship countries.

Collective memory - Argentina. --- Collective memory - Brazil. --- Collective memory - Uruguay. --- Collective memory in art. --- Memorials - Argentina. --- Memorials - Brazil. --- Memorials - Uruguay. --- Dictatorship - Argentina - 20th century. --- Dictatorship - Brazil - 20th century. --- Dictatorship - Uruguay - 20th century. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism - Argentina. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism - Brazil. --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism - Uruguay. --- Human rights - Argentina. --- Human rights - Brazil. --- Human rights - Uruguay. --- Human rights --- Victims of state-sponsored terrorism --- Dictatorship --- Memorials --- Collective memory --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Commemorations --- Historic sites --- Memorialization --- Monuments --- Absolutism --- Autocracy --- Tyranny --- Authoritarianism --- Despotism --- Totalitarianism --- State-sponsored terrorism victims --- Victims of state terrorism --- Victims of terrorism