Reviews
This book tackles the important topic of civil society’s complicity with dictatorship and state terror. The author elucidates the importance of the politics of memory, both in shaping current Argentine human rights policy and in locating responsibility for the repression in state authority and civil society.
--The Americas
A significant contribution to our understanding of the “Dirty War” and its aftermath… an argument that must be taken seriously as the fraught question of human rights continues to bedevil Argentina.
--American Historical Review
Charts new academic territory that forces the reader to reconsider how we understand dictatorship, democracy and human rights.
--The Latin Americanist
Sheinin’s work raises important questions concerning the widely accepted dictatorship-democracy binary... a significant contribution to the academic debate regarding Argentina’s recent past.
--Journal of Latin American Studies
Consent of the Damned contributes to a better understanding of the attitudes of a large portion of civil society and the international community during the bloodiest years in Argentine history.
--Hispanic American Historical Review
An important contribution to our understanding of Argentina’s recent history and offers excellent background for future essential research into many of the important questions that his book raises.
--Bulletin of Spanish Studies