Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
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 int...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld, Germany
transcript Verlag
2012
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| Series: | Erinnerungskulturen / Memory Cultures
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| Collection: | OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| ISBN: | transcript.9783839419311 9783837619317 |