Chels Smith’s Reviews > Genocide in the Neighborhood: State Violence, Popular Justice, and the ‘Escrache’ > Status Update

Love the idea that the future is now, in the present that we are constructing. Every day, every moment is a new opportunity to rectify injustices and fight against them.

3 types of knowledge production (in Argentina in 1990s): academic knowledge [criticized for making subjects of research into objects again], traditional left political parties [no better than academics], nongovernmental organizations [approach world “instrumentally” rather than transformatively]

Already: “two strategies LESS often used in the US-context: forced disappearance and extermination” (my own emphasis)
Appreciating the realness in the first page already