Remembrance, History, and Justice

Coming to Terms with Traumatic Pasts in Democratic Societies
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-963-386-101-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 516 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 742 g

The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, or collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often the premises for and the specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts. The present manuscript is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The manuscript is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iacob, Bogdan C.

Tismaneanu, Vladimir

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Part One: Politics of Memory and Constructing Democracy, Daniel Chirot, Part Two: Histories and their Publics, Part Three: Searching for Closure in Democratizing Societies, Part Four: Competing Narratives of Troubled Pasts, List of Contributors, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bogdan C. Iacob is Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter.

Vladimir Tismaneanu isProfessor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park).