In this Book
- Remembrance, History, and Justice: Coming to terms with traumatic pasts in democratic societies
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Central European University Press
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
summary
The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, or collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often the premises for and the specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts. The present manuscript is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The manuscript is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice. Key words 1. Europe, Eastern—Politics and government—1989– 2. Collective memory—Europe,Eastern. 3. Memory—Political aspects—Europe, Eastern. 4. Democratization—Social aspects—Europe, Eastern. 5. Europe, Eastern—Historiography—Socialaspects. 6. Europe, Eastern—Historiography—Political aspects. 7. Social justice—Europe, Eastern. 8. Post-communism—Europe, Eastern. 9. Fascism—Socialaspects—Europe, Eastern. 10. Dictatorship—Social aspects—Europe, Eastern.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-vii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Part One POLITICS OF MEMORY AND CONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACY
- Part Two HISTORIES AND THEIR PUBLICS
- Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice
- pp. 145-190
- Part Three SEARCHING FOR CLOSURE IN DEMOCRATIZING SOCIETIES
- The South African Transition: Then and Now
- pp. 311-328
- Part Four COMPETING NARRATIVES OF TROUBLED PASTS
- List of Contributors
- pp. 497-500
Additional Information
ISBN
9789633860939
Related ISBN(s)
9789633860922
MARC Record
OCLC
927154859
Pages
516
Launched on MUSE
2015-10-31
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND