Untouchable Perpetrators, Forgotten Rights, Transitional Justice, Corporate Accountability and Socio-Economic Rights Lessons from Argentina by Laura García Martín (review)

Abstract

be cognitively regarded, as Smith argues, as human and subhuman simultaneously. As Smith’s work further makes clear, everyone has the potential to slip into this mindset—tackling dehumanization therefore means confronting this head on, in its full implications—that is to say, in the full knowledge that anyone is capable of committing atrocities towards another human being while still viewing that person as fully human (as well as subhuman). This is perhaps a horrendous thought to contemplate, but a necessary one, if dehumanization is to be challenged in any meaningful way.