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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797357503321

Titolo

Historical justice and memory / / edited by Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-299-30463-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Critical Human Rights

Disciplina

320.01/1

Soggetti

Transitional justice

Truth commissions

Reparations for historical injustices

Collective memory

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Beyond the legalist paradigm / Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson -- Memory culture and human rights: a new constellation / Andreas Huyssen -- Reparative claims and theories of justice / Janna Thompson -- The political field of reparations / John Torpey -- How the past matters: on the foundations of an ethics of remembrance / Jeffrey Blustein -- The politics of memory, victimization and activism in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina / Elazar Barkan and Belma Becirbasic -- Memories in transition: the Spanish law of historical memory / Patrizia Violi -- How can truth telling count as reparations? / Margaret Urban Walker -- Promoting historical justice through truth commissions: an uneasy relationship / Onur Bakiner -- Repairing historical wrongs and the end of empire / Daniel Butt -- Historical dialogue: beyond transitional justice and conflict resolution / Elazar Barkan -- Memory, justice, and post-terror futures / Mark Pendleton.