Historical justice and memory
By: edited by Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson
Series: Critical human rights; Critical human rights
Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780299304645; 9780299304638
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Transitional justice; Truth commissions; Reparations for historical injustices; Collective memory
Description: "Historical Justice and Memory highlights the global movement for historical justice - acknowledging and redressing historic wrongs - as on of the most significant moral and social developments of our times. Such historic wrongs include acts of genocide, slavery, systems of apartheid, the systematic persecution of presumed enemies of the state, colonialism, and the oppression of or discrimination against ethnic or religious minorities. The historical justice movement has inspired the spread of truth and reconciliation processes around the world and has pushed governments to make reparations and apologies for past wrongs. It has changed the public understanding of justice and the role of memory. In this book, leading scholars in philosophy, history, political science, and semiotics offer new essays that discuss and assess these momentous global developments. They evaluate the strength and weaknesses of the movement, its accomplishments and failings, its philosophical assumptions and social preconditions, and its prospects for the future." --Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Beyond the legalist paradigm / Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson; title: Memory culture and human rights: a new constellation / Andreas Huyssen; title: Reparative claims and theories of justice / Janna Thompson; title: The political field of reparations / John Torpey; title: How the past matters: on the foundations of an ethics of remembrance / Jeffrey Blustein; title: The politics of memory, victimization and activism in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina / Elazar Barkan and Belma Becirbasic; title: Memories in transition: the Spanish law of historical memory / Patrizia Violi; title: How can truth telling count as reparations? / Margaret Urban Walker; title: Promoting historical justice through truth commissions: an uneasy relationship / Onur Bakiner; title: Repairing historical wrongs and the end of empire / Daniel Butt; title: Historical dialogue: beyond transitional justice and conflict resolution / Elazar Barkan; title: Memory, justice, and post-terror futures / Mark Pendleton.