The performance of memory as transitional justice / edited by S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli.
2015
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Title
The performance of memory as transitional justice / edited by S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli.
Published
Cambridge ; Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Call Number
K5250 .P47 2015
ISBN
9781780682624 (hardback)
178068262X (hardback)
178068262X (hardback)
Description
viii, 201 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)900397620
Summary
"Based on case studies spanning time and geography from the Spanish to the Nigerian civil wars, to government repression in Argentina, genocidal policies in Guatemala and Rwanda and on to forced population removal in Australia and Israel, this collection represents a focused attempt to come to grips with some of the strategies used to express traumatic memory work. Together, the essays constitute a kaleidoscope of new approaches to show how such performances of memory contribute to transitional justice efforts, demonstrating the complexities of striving for justice and reconciliation through the public expression of shared memories of violence"--Back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Purchased from the income of the Schiller Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Schiller Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Part I The Limits And Potential Of Transitional Justice Mechanisms / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
ch. 1
Troubles with Truth Commissions: Putting the Moral Aims of Truth Commissions to the Fore / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
7
1.
Truth Scepticism(s) / Margaret Urban Walker
10
2.
Different Kinds of Questions / Margaret Urban Walker
15
3.
Truth Takes Time / Margaret Urban Walker
19
4.
Conclusion / Margaret Urban Walker
21
ch. 2
Legalising Collective Remembrance after Mass Atrocities / Margaret Urban Walker
23
1.
Collective Memory Defined / Rachel López
24
1.1.
Healing Power of Collective Memory / Rachel López
26
1.2.
Collective Memory after Mass Atrocities / Rachel López
27
2.
Relationship between Justice and Collective Memory / Rachel López
29
2.1.
Law and the Collective Conscience / Rachel López
29
2.2.
Role of Trials in Establishing Collective Memory / Rachel López
30
2.3.
Slow Death of Impunity / Rachel López
33
2.4.
Can Judicial Proceedings be Harmful to Collective Memory? / Rachel López
35
3.
Inclusion of Collective Memory in Judicial Mechanisms / Rachel López
37
4.
Conclusion / Rachel López
41
ch. 3
Politics of Reparations and Apologies: Historical and Symbolic Justice within the Rwandan Context / Rachel López
43
1.
Symbolic and Historical Redress / Stephanie Wolfe
45
2.
Formal Mechanisms / Stephanie Wolfe
48
3.
Informal Mechanisms / Stephanie Wolfe
52
4.
Conclusion / Stephanie Wolfe
56
Part II The Work Of Narrative In Recalibrating National Memory / Stephanie Wolfe
ch. 4
Stories Told and Untold: Reparation, Recognition and Reshaping National Memories in Australia / Stephanie Wolfe
61
1.
Critical Role of Narrative Justice in the Settler Colonial Nation / Danielle Celermajer
62
2.
Contemporary Suffering and the Turn to Historical Justice / Danielle Celermajer
65
3.
Family Histories, National Histories: Telling Personal Stories / Danielle Celermajer
68
4.
Response as Recognition: Reparation as a Form of Narrative Justice / Danielle Celermajer
76
5.
Conclusion / Danielle Celermajer
79
ch. 5
Competing Narratives in Rwandan Reconciliation / Danielle Celermajer
81
1.
Narrative, Violence, and Reconciliation / Annelisa Lindsay
81
2.
Narrative and the Rwandan Genocide / Annelisa Lindsay
83
2.1.
Pre-Colonial Period / Annelisa Lindsay
83
2.2.
Colonial Period / Annelisa Lindsay
84
2.3.
Independence / Annelisa Lindsay
85
Narrative and Reconciliation in Rwanda / Annelisa Lindsay
87
3.1.
Official Narrative / Annelisa Lindsay
87
3.2.
Culture and Education / Annelisa Lindsay
89
3.3.
Political Reform / Annelisa Lindsay
90
3.4.
Reconciliation Mechanisms / Annelisa Lindsay
92
3.5.
Cooperation and Development / Annelisa Lindsay
93
4.
Lasting Peace? / Annelisa Lindsay
94
ch. 6
Where Is My Grandfather? Impunity and Memory in Spain / Annelisa Lindsay
97
1.
Spanish Civil War and the Dictatorship: the Winners' 'Official Memory' / Olga Martin-Ortega Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández
98
2.
Transition: Amnesty and the Pact of Silence / Olga Martin-Ortega Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández
101
3.
Opening the Graves, Opening the Memory / Olga Martin-Ortega Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández
103
4.
Institutional Responses: the Historical Memory Law / Olga Martin-Ortega Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández
105
5.
Searching for the Dead through the Courts / Olga Martin-Ortega Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández
108
6.
Official Memory, Historical Memory and Collective Identity / Olga Martin-Ortega Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández
109
7.
Conclusion / Olga Martin-Ortega Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández
113
ch. 7
Role of Direct-Experience People in Promoting Transitional Justice: The Israeli Case / Olga Martin-Ortega Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández
115
1.
Literature Review / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
116
2.
1948 Palestinian Exodus and its Memory in Israel / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
118
3.
Methodology / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
120
4.
Israeli 1948 War Veterans Addressing the Exodus / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
121
4.1.
Memoirs / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
121
4.2.
Newspaper Articles / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
122
4.3.
Interviews by Scholars / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
123
5.
Impacts of the Critical Activity of the Veterans / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
123
5.1.
Directly Reducing the Extent of Taboo regarding the Critical Narrative / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
123
5.2.
Providing Evidence for the Expulsions / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
124
6.
Discussion / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
126
6.1.
Transitional Justice and Ongoing Conflicts / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
126
6.2.
Causes of the Veterans' Behaviour / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
127
6.3.
Informal Activity that is not Motivated by Justice/Peace Considerations / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
128
6.4.
Comparing Formal Peace-Motivated Activity to Informal Non-Peace-Motivated Activity / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
129
6.5.
Relations between Formal Peace-Motivated Activity and Informal Non-Peace-Motivated Activity / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
130
6.6.
Other Non-Peace-Motivated Transitional Justice Activities / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
131
7.
Conclusion / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
131
Part III Memory Work As Transitional Justice / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
ch. 8
Asaba Memorial Project: Negotiating a Community Collaboration / Rafi Nets-Zehngut
135
1.
Introduction / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
135
2.
Asaba Memorial Project / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
137
2.1.
Legacy of the War / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
138
2.2.
Complexity of Memory / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
142
2.3.
Forms of Memory Work / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
146
2.4.
Collaborative Process / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
147
3.
Conclusion: Practical Memorialisation / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
149
ch. 9
Testimonies of Violence in Post-Conflict Guatemala: Circulation and the Transnational Politics of Misrecognition / S. Elizabeth Bird, Fraser M. Ottanelli
153
1.
Social Identities: Locating Difference and Violence in Narrativity / Brigittine M. French
155
2.
Temporal Reification of Political Violence / Brigittine M. French
158
3.
Politics of Erasure and Misrecognition / Brigittine M. French
161
4.
Conclusion: Communicability, Violence, and Impunity in Latin America / Brigittine M. French
163
ch. 10
Conceptualising Alternative Forms of Justice: The Politics of Memorialisation in Rwanda / Brigittine M. French
167
1.
Memorials and Memorialisations / Jessica Auchter
171
1.1.
Contested Memorial: Murambi / Jessica Auchter
173
2.
Representing the Unrepresentable: Rethinking Justice / Jessica Auchter
176
3.
Conclusions / Jessica Auchter
179
ch. 11
Memories of Violence: Literature and Transitional Justice in Argentina / Jessica Auchter
181
1.
Conceptual Repertoire / Oscar Hemer
182
2.
Museum of Memory / Oscar Hemer
184
3.
Memory Boom / Oscar Hemer
188
4.
National Body / Oscar Hemer
190
5.
Grand Illusion / Oscar Hemer
192
6.
Distance / Oscar Hemer
193
7.
By Way of Conclusion / Oscar Hemer
194
ch. 12
Majdanek: The Work of Memory / Oscar Hemer
197
About the Authors / Hunt Hawkins
199