TY - JOUR AU - Rae, Maria PY - 2016/02/05 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Truth at Any Cost? Law’s Power to Name Argentina’s Disappeared Grandchildren JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 7 IS - 2 SE - Thematic Articles DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/749 SP - 324-336 AB - <p>During Argentina&rsquo;s military dictatorship (1976-1983) more than 30,000 people disappeared including 500 babies who were stolen from detainees and given to military supporters. The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo have been successful in lobbying for laws to reclaim these babies and make perpetrators accountable. This article explores one such law that made DNA testing on these now adult children compulsory. In drawing on Bourdieu&rsquo;s notion of law as a symbolic discourse of power it considers how this law could establish an authoritative reality that, in some cases, was contrary to the interests and experiences of the stolen grandchildren. Finally, it argues there must be caution about legal responses that can have the unintended consequences of continuing similar harms of the past.</p> <hr /><p>Durante la dictadura militar argentina (1976-1983) desaparecieron m&aacute;s de 30.000 personas, entre ellas 500 beb&eacute;s que fueron robados a mujeres que estaban detenidas y entregados a simpatizantes de los militares. Las Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo han tenido &eacute;xito en ejercer presi&oacute;n a favor de una legislaci&oacute;n que reclame a estos beb&eacute;s y responsabilice a los culpables. Este art&iacute;culo analiza una de estas leyes, que obliga a realizar pruebas de ADN a estos ni&ntilde;os, ahora adultos. Bas&aacute;ndose en la noci&oacute;n de Bourdieu del derecho como discurso simb&oacute;lico del poder, considera c&oacute;mo esta ley podr&iacute;a establecer una realidad autoritaria que, en algunos casos, era contraria a los intereses y experiencias de los nietos robados. Finalmente, se argumenta que se debe ser cauteloso con respuestas legales que pueden causar de forma no intencionada los mismos da&ntilde;os del pasado.</p><p><strong>DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN</strong>: <a href="https://ssrn.com/abstract=2975420" target="_blank">https://ssrn.com/abstract=2975420</a></p> ER -