Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory
| Titel: | Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century / Birgit Schwelling (ed.) |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Bielefeld : transcript, [2012] |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (372 Seiten) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Erinnerungskulturen = Memory cultures ; volume 2 |
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| ISBN: | 9783839419311 ; 9783837619317 |
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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.
