Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory: Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
Birgit Schwelling (editor), Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection (editor)How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion.
Year:
2014
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Publisher:
transcript Verlag
Language:
english
Pages:
372
ISBN 10:
383941931X
ISBN 13:
9783839419311
Series:
Erinnerungskulturen / Memory Cultures; 2
File:
PDF, 1.51 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2014