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Record Nr.

UNINA9910338050503321

Autore

Conley Bridget

Titolo

Memory from the Margins : Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum / / by Bridget Conley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-13495-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 pages)

Collana

Memory Politics and Transitional Justice

Disciplina

963.07

Soggetti

Peace

Historiography

Democracy

Social justice

Human rights

Peace Studies

Memory Studies

Conflict Studies

Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Memory from the Margins -- 2. Revolution and Red Terror, 1974 – 1978 -- 3. Transitional Influences, 1991 – 2005 -- 4. The Shape of Memory, 2003 – 2010 -- 5. The Tour as Traumatic Performance, 2010 – present -- 6. Conclusion: On Memory and Future Transitions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational, national and local forces as they converge in the story of the creation and continued life of one modest museum in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa—the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum. It is a study from multiple margins: neither the case of Ethiopia nor memorialization is central to transitional justice discourse, and within Ethiopia, the history of the Red Terror is sidelined in contemporary politics. From these nested



margins, traumatic memory emerges as an ambiguous social and political force. The contributions, meaning and limitations of memory emerge at the point of discrete interactions between memory advocates, survivor-docents and visitors. Memory from the margins is revealed as powerful for how it disrupts, not builds, new forms of community. Bridget Conley is Research Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, USA. She was previously Research Director for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience. .