This book accounts for the process of emergence and constitution ofthe human rights movement and discourse during the last militarydictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Central to this account is thecontention that the movement?s emergence and constitution should notbe understood as a necessary or as a natural response to theatrocities carried out by the last military regime, but instead as the result of a contingent process of political articulation and as aresponse which could have failed in its constitution and success.Thus, the appearance of the human rights movement and discourse in thecountry can only be understood in its full complexity if attention isgiven to this very process of popular mobilisation and politicalarticulation that took place during 1976-1982.

The emerging field of psychosocial studies signifies a confluence ofdisciplines for whom the fantasies, repressions and cultural practices underlying national identity represents a crucial research focus.This book presents a psychosocial portrayal of Brazil?s arrival on the international stage in the economic boom of the run-up to its hosting of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. This formerPortuguese colony is a country of contradictions in need of a newimage, a nation that needs to be able to both love and sell itself intoday?s neo-liberal reality. It argues that a contemporaryrepresentation of Brazilian subjectivity is best enabled through aninterdisciplinary perspective. Five key themes ? to be explored in all their contradictions and ambivalence ? structure the book: fantasiesof the nation, xenophobia and denial, Brazilian cultural practice,transnational mobility, and gender, race and Brazilian identity.