The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justice

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Edited by S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli

Publisher:: Intersentia
Online publication date:: December 2020
Print publication year:: 2014
Online ISBN:: 9781839700651
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781839700651

Series:: Series on Transitional Justice
Subjects:: Law, Criminal Law

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Based on case studies spanning time and geography from the Spanish to the Nigerian civil wars, to government repression in Argentina, genocidal policies in Guatemala and Rwanda and on to forced population removal in Australia and Israel, this collection represents a focused attempt to come to grips with some of the strategies used to express traumatic memory work. Together, the essays constitute a kaleidoscope of new approaches to show how such performances of memory contribute to transitional justice efforts, demonstrating the complexities of striving for justice and reconciliation through the public expression of shared memories of violence.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-viii

Introduction
pp 1-4

PART I - THE LIMITS AND POTENTIAL OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS
pp 5-6

Chapter 1 - Troubles with Truth Commissions: Putting the Moral Aims of Truth Commissions to the Fore
pp 7-22

Chapter 2 - Legalising Collective Remembrance After Mass Atrocities
pp 23-42

Chapter 3 - The Politics of Reparations and Apologies: Historical and Symbolic Justice within the Rwandan Context
pp 43-58

PART II - THE WORK OF NARRATIVE IN RECALIBRATING NATIONAL MEMORY
pp 59-60

Chapter 4 - Stories Told and Untold: Reparation, Recognition and Reshaping National Memories in Australia
pp 61-80

Chapter 5 - Competing Narratives in Rwandan Reconciliation
pp 81-96

Chapter 6 - Where Is My Grandfather? Impunity and Memory in Spain
pp 97-114

Chapter 7 - The Role of Direct-Experience People in Promoting Transitional Justice: The Israeli Case
pp 115-132

PART III - MEMORY WORK AS TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
pp 133-134

Chapter 8 - The Asaba Memorial Project: Negotiating a Community Collaboration
pp 135-152

Chapter 9 - Testimonies of Violence in Post-Conflict Guatemala: Circulation and the Transnational Politics of Misrecognition
pp 153-166

Chapter 10 - Conceptualising Alternative Forms of Justice: The Politics of Memorialisation in Rwanda
pp 167-180

Chapter 11 - Memories of Violence: Literature and Transitional Justice in Argentina
pp 181-196

Chapter 12 - Majdanek: The Work of Memory
pp 197-198

About the Authors
pp 199-201

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