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Who Counts? The Mathematics of Life and Death after Genocide

contextualization of the Argentinean case. Readers without any prior knowledge can be left with too limited a view. Along with the lack of references and ties to other literature on the topic (for example, to the vast bibliography on collective memory and human rights movements in Latin America), the book falls short in directing readers to historical literature that would allow them to reach a better understanding of the case in point. One last observation about the book’s shortcomings is the one I believe to be the most problematic: Morello’s efforts in redeeming the fate of the seminarians and subsequently the church itself (as an institution that should not be demonized as a supporter of the military but understood as a heterogeneous body where anti-military/prohuman rights activists not only existed but suffered violence) hinder his analysis. For example, throughout the book, the author criticizes the church for not taking quick action to liberate the seminarians who had been wrongly imprisoned. Of course, this criticism is logical and commendable. However, his focus on the fate of the seminarians prevents him from questioning the broader picture—the one that has puzzled Argentineans in general and human rights activists in particular for quite a long time—that is, the church’s passive or ambiguous attitude about violence being perpetrated (illegally and indiscriminately) against all people by military, paramilitary, and other armed groups. Morello’s analysis of the three factions of the church still helps readers understand why the church did not react in a unified way against the widespread systematic abuse of human rights that was occurring in Argentina. However, his emphasis on the seminarians and the attitude of the church toward their own institutional representatives ends up reproducing a hierarchy that puts religious people over non-religious people, believers over non-believers. This was probably an unintended consequence of what we can call ‘‘case over-focus,’’ which reminds researchers of an old lesson: too much focus on the tree prevents us from seeing the forest. Books like Morello’s, with all of its strengths and limitations, are invaluable contributions furthering our understanding of how injustices have been perpetrated and how people’s individual and collective agency to navigate and challenge institutional structures and relations of power continues to be the key to provoke social change.