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 |
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| Veröffentlicht: | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : transcript Verlag, 2012 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (1 Online-Ressource ( p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9783837619317 ; 9783839419311 |
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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.
