Paloma Aguilar is Associate Professor of Political Science at UNED, Madrid, Spain. She is the author of Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy (2001) and coeditor of The Politics of Memory: Transitional Justice in Democratizing Societies (2001). She was Tinker Professor at the University of Wisconsin and Visiting Professor at Princeton University.
Leigh A. Payne is Professor of Sociology and Latin America and Fellow of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK. Her research has received support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, British Academy, Social Science Research Council, and various foundations. She is the author of Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence (2008).
Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Unsettling Accounts.- 2. Heroic Historic Confessions.- 3. Few, Fugative, and Fleeting Confessions.- 4. Unsettling the Balance.- 5. Preposterous Denial.- 6. Unsettling Bones as Unsettling Accounts.- Conclusion.