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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213856003321

Titolo

Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory : Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century / Birgit Schwelling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2014

2014, c2012

ISBN

9783839419311

383941931X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Collana

Erinnerungskulturen / Memory Cultures

Disciplina

323

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

1 Contents    5 Transnational Civil Society's Contribution to Reconciliation    7 "A Question of Humanity in its Entirety"    25 Mea Culpas, Negotiations, Apologias    51 Soldiers' Reconciliation    97 "A Blessed Act of Oblivion"    115 Franco-German Rapprochement and Reconciliation in the Ecclesial Domain    143 A Right to Irreconcilability?    167 From Atonement to Peace?    201 Apologising for Colonial Violence    239 Facing Postcolonial Entanglement and the Challenge of Responsibility    277 Political Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the



Bloody Sunday Inquiry    315 From Truth to Reconciliation    339 About the Authors    369

Sommario/riassunto

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.

»Der Sammelband [bietet] einen überzeugenden Einblick in Prozesse und Formen der ›transitional justice‹, die oft so gar nicht in das standardmäßige Repertoire auf diesem Gebiet passen wollen und unterstützt damit auch eine stärkere Berücksichtigung der lokalen und kulturellen Bezüge in Versuchen der Verarbeitung vergangener Verbrechen.«

»Ein gelungener Sammelband, der mit der Breite seiner Beispiele das Verständnis von Versöhnungsprozessen jenseits nationaler Grenzen erweitert.«

Reviewed in: Wissenschaft und Frieden, 1 (2013)www.pw-portal.de, 25.06.2013, Björn Wagner