PUBLICATIONS

Published Research

Journal articles, book chapters, books, and conference presentations by the NuestramemorIA team on digital humanities, memory, and human rights.

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    Artificial Intelligence, Court Records, and Transitional Justice: Toward the Verifiable Reconstruction of Human Rights Violations (in Chile)

    Rojas, H.; Fonck, A.; Sanhueza, D.; Mery, D., and Dunstan, J. (2026) · Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Scopus)

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    Characterizing Complaints of Human Rights Violations During the Social Unrest in Chile

    Rojas, H. and Fernández, J.M. (2026) · Novum Jus, 20(1), pp. 25–51 (Scopus)

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    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Artificial Intelligence

    Dunstan, J.; Arriagada-Bruneau, G., and Mery, D. (2026) · AI and Ethics

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    Building Computational Workflows for Human Rights Archives: Design Decisions Under Data Sensitivity Constraints

    Dunstan, J. and Gómez, E. (2026) · vISIon: The ISI Magazine

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    The Military Structure of the Coup d'État in Chile: Command Structure, Intelligence, and Internal Security, 1973–1974

    Seguel, P. (2026) · Historia Actual Online, 70

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    Detention Centers and State Repression Mechanisms: A Comparative Study of the Dictatorships in Argentina and Chile (1970–1990)

    Scatizza, P. and Seguel, P. (2025) · In G. Águila, S. Garaño, and P. Scatizza (eds.), Cartographies of Repression in Latin America. Buenos Aires: Imago Mundi. ISBN: 978-950-793-463-6

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    Review of “Wars Within the Barracks: Remembering Military Service During the Dictatorship in Chile,” by Leith Passmore

    Seguel, P. (2025) · *Iberoamericana*, 89, pp. 287–290

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    A Public History of “Never Again” in Chile, 1990–2025: Human Rights in the Spotlight and Beyond

    Seguel, P. (2025) · Santiago: Historiográfica. ISBN: 978-956-09405-5-1

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    Indigenous Peoples and Truth Commissions: An Analysis of the Canadian, Colombian, Norwegian, and Australian Experiences

    Millaleo, S.; Shaftoe, M.; and Rojas, H. (2025) · Latin American Legal Studies, 13(2), pp. 79–125 (Scopus)

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    Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Transitional Chile: From Precarity to Recognition

    Cereceda, E.; Fernández, J.M.; Murray, M.; Olivar, A., and Rojas, H. (2025) · In H. Risor, M. Murray, and P. Di Giminiani (eds.), After Thirty Years: Experiences and Stories on Democracy and Social Rights in Chile. Alberto Hurtado University Press

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    Human Rights Violations During the 2019 Social Unrest in Chile: Progress and Challenges in Justice and Reparations for Victims

    Rojas, H. (2025) · In R. Wilkinson and V. Infante (eds.), *Fifty Years of Human Rights in Chile* (Palgrave Macmillan), pp. 155–172 (Scopus)

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    Critical Theory of Law and Social Justice in the Americas

    Rojas, H. and Vélez Martínez, S. (2025) · Alberto Hurtado University Press

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    Pillars of Transitional Justice in Latin America

    Rojas, H. (2025) · Konrad Adenauer Foundation – Rule of Law Program

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    Judicial Independence in Chile, 1973–2023

    Rojas, H. and Blanco, R. (2024) · In N. Reayat, R. Smith, and M. Cho (eds.), *Judicial Independence in Transitional Democracies* (Routledge), pp. 268–292 (Scopus)

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    Automatic Knowledge Graph Creation from Historical Documents: The Chilean Dictatorship as a Case Study

    Díaz, C.; Dunstan, J.; Etcheberry, L.; Fonck, A.; Grez, A.; Mery, D.; Reutter, J., and Rojas, H. (2024) · CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 3853 (Scopus)

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    “Deport from the national territory without further proceedings”: Notes on the creation of the “Archive of Immigration, Memory, and Human Rights, 1973–1990” repository

    Mallea, F.; Candina, A.; Quintana, N.; Zubicueta, D., and Seguel, P. (2024) · Amoxtli, (12), pp. 1–12

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    How to Write Essays: A Guide to Legal and Socio-Legal Research

    Fernández, H.; Martínez, V.; Rojas, H., and Vivaldi, L. (2024) · Alberto Hurtado University Press

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    50 Years After the 1973 Coup in Chile: An Analysis of the Processes of Transition to Democracy and Transitional Justice

    Rojas, H. (2024) · Seattle Journal for Social Justice, 22(3), pp. 587–620

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    “Landscapes of Memory” in Lower Saxony and Bremen: Reflections on the Chilean Case from an Ethnographic Perspective

    Hevia, E. and Seguel, P. (2023) · In X. Faúndez, D. Rebolledo, and O. Sagredo (Eds.), Chile Fifty Years After the September 11, 1973, Coup d’État. University of Valparaíso, pp. 255–295. ISBN: 978-956-8975-12-8

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    Crimes Committed During the Social Unrest and the Role of the Public Defender's Office in Chile in 2019

    Farías, J.; Fernández, J.M.; Pascual, T., and Rojas, H. (2023) · PUCP Law Review, 90, pp. 79–114

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    On the Redressive Effect of Civil Judgments in Cases of Serious Human Rights Violations in Chile

    Rojas, H. and Pino, A. (2023) · Atenea, 528, pp. 267–287

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    The Light and Shadow of Transitional Justice in Chile

    Rojas, H. (2023) · In C. Sanz (ed.), Democratic Transitions and Historical Memory: Lessons Learned Between Latin America and Spain (Fundación Carolina), pp. 65–78

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    Challenges of Transitional Justice in Latin America

    Rojas, H. (2023) · Law Review of the Catholic University of Uruguay, 28, pp. 1–10 (Scielo)

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    The “Civil-Military Relationship”: A Preliminary Assessment

    Seguel, P. (2023) · Nuestra Historia Journal, 16, pp. 59–86

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    Soldiers of Repression: Anti-Communism, Counterinsurgency, and National Security in the Chilean Armed Forces, 1970–1975

    Seguel, P. (2022) · Alberto Hurtado University Press (1st ed. 2022, 2nd ed. 2025)

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    "Expert" Practices of Commemoration: The Case of Plot 29 at the General Cemetery, Santiago, Chile

    Mallea, F. (2022) · Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 12(5), pp. 1202–1226

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    The Left and Popular Power in Chile, 1970–1973. Vol. II. Radical Movements for Constitutional Reform

    Seguel, P.; Urrutia, M.; and Ortiz, M. (Eds.) (2022) · Ediciones Escaparate. ISBN: 978-956-394-067-1

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    The Andrés Pereira Salsberg Case: The Presence of the Absence of Enforced Disappearances

    Lira, E. and Rojas, H. (2022) · Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales, 43, pp. 261–283

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    Transitional Justice in Established Democracies: An Analysis of the Canadian, South African, and Chilean Experiences

    Rojas, H.; Millaleo, S., and Shaftoe, M. (2022) · Latin American Legal Studies, 10(2), pp. 470–533

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    Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile

    Rojas, H. and Shaftoe, M. (2022) · Palgrave Macmillan (Spanish translation by Tirant lo Blanch, 2022)

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    Past Human Rights Violations and the Issue of Indifference: The Case of Chile

    Rojas, H. (2022) · Palgrave Macmillan

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    Chile at a Crossroads: From the 2019 Social Uprising to a New Constitution

    Rojas, H. (2022) · Seattle Journal for Social Justice, 20(4), pp. 981–1018

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    The Left and Popular Power in Chile, 1970–1973. Vol. I. Conceptual Frameworks

    Seguel, P.; Urrutia, M.; and Ortiz, M. (Eds.) (2021) · Ediciones Escaparate. ISBN: 978-956-394-066-4

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    The Image-Object: The Burlap at Chile’s Museum of Memory and Human Rights as a Vehicle for Political and Commercial Representation

    Mallea, F. (2021) · Iberoforum. Journal of Social Sciences, 1(1), pp. 1–32

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    A Practical Guide to Using Archival Documents in the Designation of Former Political Detention and Torture Centers as Historic Monuments in Chile

    Suárez, R.; Accatino, D.; and Rojas, H. (2021) · Working Paper, 7. Interdisciplinary Research Program on Memory and Human Rights, Alberto Hurtado University

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    Guidelines and Recommendations on the Registration and Documentation of Enforced Disappearances

    Rojas, H.; Bell, V.; Bernasconi, O.; Ruiz, M. et al. (2021) · Alberto Hurtado University, University of London – Goldsmiths, Ibero-American University of Mexico City, Pontifical Xavierian University of Bogotá

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    Strategic Criminal Litigation in Oral Trials

    Blanco, R.; Decap, M.; Moreno, L., and Rojas, H. (2021) · Tirant lo Blanch

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    Recording and Documenting State Violence as Legal Evidence in Human Rights Trials

    Hau, B.; Lessa, F.; and Rojas, H. (2020) · In O. Bernasconi (ed.), Documenting Atrocity: Resisting State Terrorism (Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado), pp. 249–284

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    The Process of Highlighting Industrial Heritage, Memory, and Human Rights in the Town of Neltume, 2016–2017

    Seguel, P. and Jiménez, C. (2020) · Conserva Journal, No. 24, pp. 37–59

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    Foreword: Toward Redress for Peasants Who Were Forcibly Evicted from Their Land

    Rojas, H. (2020) · In B. Loveman and E. Lira, *Peasants Dispossessed of Their Land: Laws and Policies of Reparation and Political Patronage in Chile*. Santiago: Ediciones DER

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    Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: How Do Sites of Memory and Archives Contribute to the Processes of Truth, Reparation, and Human Rights Education?

    Seguel, P. (2020) · In O. Sagredo and I. Salaverry (Eds.), Villa Grimaldi Oral Archive. Villa Grimaldi Peace Park Foundation. ISBN: 978-956-8975-06-7

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    The Jurisdictional Area Commands for Internal Security (CAJSI): The Chilean Armed Forces’ Strategic National Security Mechanism for Repression and Counter-Subversion, 1972–1974

    Seguel, P. (2020) · Revista Sudamericana, 16, pp. 36–75

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    The Organization of Repression and Intelligence under the Chilean Military Dictatorship: From the Military Takeover of the Territory to the Emergence of the National Intelligence Directorate, 1973–1977

    Seguel, P. (2020) · Izquierdas Journal, No. 49, pp. 767–796

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    State Violence and Human Rights Violations in a Democracy: Chile’s Situation in Latin America

    Seguel, P. and Carrasco, M. (2020) · A Surge in Human Rights Violations in Chile. Santiago: Heinrich Böll Stiftung, pp. 14–33

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    Why (can't) Pinochet be included in a museum exhibition?

    Mallea, F. and Meirovich, S. (2019) · In A. Estefane, C. Olmedo, and L. Thielemann (Eds.), 1988-1968: From the Transition to the Long ’68 in Chile, pp. 284–286. Ariadna Ediciones

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    Human Rights and Cultural Heritage: Stories and Memories of (Quasi-)State Repression in Chile

    Seguel, P. (2019) · Santiago: Research Division, National Cultural Heritage Service. ISBN: 978-956-244-451-4

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    Policies for the Preservation of Sites of Memory in Chile, 1996–2018: Perspectives from an Emerging Field

    Seguel, P. (2018) · *Persona y Sociedad*, No. 32, Vol. 1, pp. 63–97

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    Power Practices of the Subaltern Classes in the Development of Popular Power in Chile, 1970–1973

    Seguel, P. (2016) · Izquierdas Journal, no. 27, pp. 161–199

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    Politicization, Immunization, and Exceptions to the Rule of Law. A Theoretical Reflection Based on a Critique of Discourses on the Breakdown of Democracy in Chile (1973–1990)

    Seguel, P. (2016) · Astrolabio Journal, Argentina, no. 16, pp. 220–244

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    The Contribution of the Humanities to the Lingering Effects of the Coup d'État: 40 Years and Counting Toward a Democratic Break in Chile

    Urrutia, M. and Seguel, P. (2015) · *Sociedad Hoy*, Journal of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Concepción, 25, pp. 97–143

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