Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory
Subtitle: Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
Contributors: Schwelling, Birgit
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 20121015
Place of publication: Bielefeld, Germany
ISBN-13: 9783839419311
Subjects: Cultural studies
Description: 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.
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