Unwanted Witnesses is a brilliantly conceived and executed hybrid of journalism, literary criticism, and ethnography that brings us clear-eyed dispatches from the murky frontiers of both journalism and fiction. Written with the urgency and emotion of front-line reportage, Polit's book mobilizes cutting-edge theory and scholarship to give its readers an almost-visceral understanding of the realities--and all too frequently, the perils--of being a practicing journalist in twenty-first century Latin America.--Aníbal González-Pérez, Yale University
Elle apporte une très riche contribution non seulement à la sociologie du journalisme mais aussi aux études littéraires, et dialogue avec de nombreuses références issues de l'ethnographie, de la philosophie et de la science politique.-- "Critique internationale"
Gabriela Polit Dueñas's Unwanted Witnesses: Journalists and Conflict in Contemporary Latin America shows the high prices journalists pay and the deadly risks they encounter in doing their work in Latin America.-- "Public Books"
Polit-Dueñas's path breaking study gives us a unique insight into the testimonies, fieldwork practices and subjectivity of women journalists who have dared to oppose silence and complicity, crime and impunity, social amnesia and indifference, and who are necessarily performing an essential communicative and political task in Latin America today.--Ignacio Corona, coeditor of Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response
Unwanted Witnesses is worthwhile for its celebration of valiant reporters and its evidence that journalism can make a difference even in the most forlorn circumstances, at least in terms of public memory of victims and the dignity of their relatives.-- "Latin American Research Review"