Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory
Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
Contributor(s)
Schwelling, Birgit (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
100493Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
History; History and Memory; War and Society; Reconciliation; Armenian Genocide; Franco-German Relations; Human Rights; Contemporary History; Memory Culture; Politics; Globalization; Civil Society; Political Science; Cultural Studies; Israel; Truth and reconciliation commissionDOI
10.14361/transcript.9783839419311ISBN
9783837619317, 9783839419311OCN
979971394Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/Publication date and place
Bielefeld, Germany, 2012-10-15Series
Erinnerungskulturen / Memory Cultures,Classification
Cultural studies