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    Peace and the politics of memory

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    Contributor(s)
    Mannergren, Johanna (editor)
    Björkdahl, Annika (editor)
    Buckley-Zistel, Susanne (editor)
    Kappler, Stefanie (editor)
    Williams, Timothy (editor)
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    This book explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. Situating the book in the literature of critical Peace Research and Memory Studies, the authors introduce the idea that the quality of peace is affected by the extent to which memories are entangled. It advances and employs an original theoretical framework to study mnemonic formations. Mnemonic formations are societally salient topics regarding a particular facet of a conflict-affected society’s memoryscape that bring memory and politics together. We investigate mnemonic formations through the interplay between sites, agency, narratives and events. Acknowledging the entanglement of memory in mnemonic formations, this book renders visible the fluidity of memory-making and the political frictions between competing memories. It provides rich empirical case studies that analyse and compare mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia. Through this comparative investigation the book assesses how and why memory politics contributes to the construction of a just peace or the perpetuation of conflict, or nuances in between. This analysis shows that three elements of memory politics play a key role in relation to the quality of peace: inclusivity, pluralism and dignity. Suggesting that memory politics affect the quality of peace, the book concludes that when the mnemonic formation consists of multiple, intersectional entanglements and overlaps, there is more room for just peace.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98525
    Keywords
    memory politics; mnemonic formations; quality of peace; just peace; Cyprus; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Rwanda; South Africa; Cambodia
    DOI
    10.7765/9781526178329
    ISBN
    9781526178329, 9781526178329
    Publisher
    Manchester University Press
    Publisher website
    https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/
    Publication date and place
    Manchester, 2024
    Grantor
    • Lund University - [...]
    Series
    New Approaches to Conflict Analysis,
    Classification
    Comparative politics
    Peace studies and conflict resolution
    Violence, intolerance and persecution in history
    Pages
    256
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • If not noted otherwise all contents are available under Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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