ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses The Art of Post-Dictatorship which begins from the observation that in contemporary Argentina, questions of justice relating to the last dictatorship are approached within a broad spectrum of engagements. It argues that Argentina's post-dictatorship period is a story that is only partly grasped via the role of law and legal decisions, the privileged site for transitional justice scholars. In The Art of Post-Dictatorship, there is less emphasis on narrative forms, and a broader sense of how and where the nomos is constituted. But the book shares the insistence on the importance of these alternative sites at which people consider their worlds against their yearnings and their hopes for the future. Transitional justice mechanisms in their various guises attend to voices and ghosts from the past, inviting them to appear, while also conjuring up the future.
