The Right against Rights in Latin America

Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin America at the University of Oxford, St Antony's College. She works broadly on responses to past atrocity. Together with Gabriel Pereira and Laura Bernal Bermúdez, she has published Transitional Justice and Corporate Accountability: Deploying Archimedes' Lever (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and a follow-up edited volume on Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice (Oxford University Press, 2022). She has also edited with Karina Ansolabehere and Barbara Frey Disappearances in the Post-Transition Era in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2021) and with Juan Espindola Collaboration in Authoritarian and Armed Conflict Settings (Oxford University Press, 2022).Julia Zulver is a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She is currently based at the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas at the UNAM in Mexico City (2020-2022). Her project 'High-Risk Leadership in Latin America' focuses on women's leadership in the pursuit of social justice in various violent contexts. She earned her DPhil in Sociology at the University of Oxford in 2018, where she studied how and why organisations of women mobilise in high-risk contexts, actions which expose them to further danger. Her book High-Risk Feminism in Colombia: Women's Mobilization in Violent Contexts was published by Rutgers University Press in 2022.Simón Escoffier is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is the author of the book Mobilising at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile (forthcoming, 2023). He holds a doctorate from the Sociology Department and St Antony's College at the University of Oxford. His research sits at the intersection of social movements, citizenship, urban marginality, local governance, democracy, and Latin American studies. He teaches on sociological theory, politics, and social movements.

• 1: SIMÓN ESCOFFIER, LEIGH A. PAYNE, AND JULIA ZULVER: Introduction: The Right against Rights in Latin America2: LEIGH A. PAYNE: The Right against Rights in Latin America: An Analytical Framework3: VALENTINA SALVI: Families of Perpetrators Mobilising Against Human Rights Trials in Argentina4: ELIZABETH S. CORREDOR: The Religious Right and Anti-Genderism in Colombia5: SAMUEL RITHOLTZ AND MIGUEL MESQUITA: The Transnational Force of Anti-LGBTQI Politics in Latin America6: ANDREZA ARUSKA DE SOUZA SANTOS: 'In the Name of the Family': The Evangelical Caucus and Rights Rollbacks in Brazil7: GILLIAN KANE, MIRTA MORAGA, AND KIRAN STALLONE: Framejacking Rights Discourse to Undermine Latin American Multilateral Human Rights Institutions8: SIMÓN ESCOFFIER AND LIETA VIVALDI: Why Anti-Abortion Movements Fail: The Case of Chile9: NANCY R. TAPIAS TORRADO: The Violent Rollback of Indigenous and Environmental Rights: The Emblematic Case of Lenca Leader Berta Cáceres in Honduras10: DEBBIE SHARNAK: Opposing Affirmative Action: Covert and Coded Challenges to Racial Equality in Uruguay11: ANNA KRAUSOVA: Resisting Redistribution with Recognition: A Radical Neoliberal Countermovement in Santa Cruz, Bolivia12: JULIA ZULVER AND LEIGH A. PAYNE: Righting Rights, Righting Wrongs: Final Reflections