Historical Justice
1st Edition
Published on 27. July 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
162 pages
978-1-138-09883-1 (ISBN)
Description
The yearning for historical justice - that is, for the redress of past wrongs - has become one of the defining features of our age. Governments, international bodies and civil society organisations address historical injustices through truth commissions, tribunals, official apologies and other transitional justice measures. Historians produce knowledge of past human rights violations, and museums, memorials and commemorative ceremonies try to keep that knowledge alive and remember the victims of injustices.
In this book, researchers with a background in history, archaeology, cultural studies, literary studies and sociology explore the various attempts to recover and remember the past as a means of addressing historic wrongs. Case studies include sites of persecution in Germany, Argentina and Chile, the commemoration of individual victims of Nazi Germany, memories of life under South Africa's apartheid regime, and the politics of memory in Israel and in Northern Ireland. The authors critique memory, highlight silences and absences, explore how to engage with the ghosts of the past, and ask what drives individuals, including professional historians, to strive for historical justice.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.
In this book, researchers with a background in history, archaeology, cultural studies, literary studies and sociology explore the various attempts to recover and remember the past as a means of addressing historic wrongs. Case studies include sites of persecution in Germany, Argentina and Chile, the commemoration of individual victims of Nazi Germany, memories of life under South Africa's apartheid regime, and the politics of memory in Israel and in Northern Ireland. The authors critique memory, highlight silences and absences, explore how to engage with the ghosts of the past, and ask what drives individuals, including professional historians, to strive for historical justice.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
260 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-09883-1 (9781138098831)
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Person
Klaus Neumann is a trained historian who works as a research professor at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, Australia. Recent titles include Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees: A History (2015) and Historical Justice (ed., with Janna Thompson, 2015). He is currently researching issues of historical justice, the policy response to refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants, and the politics of compassion.
Content
1. Introduction: Historians and the yearning for historical justice 2. The disappearing museum 3. Stumbling blocks in Germany 4. The ethics of nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa 5. Excavating Tempelhof airfield: objects of memory and the politics of absence 6. Jewish Haifa denies its Arab past 7. Ghosts and companeros: haunting stories and the quest for justice around Argentina's former terror sites 8. The desire for justice, psychic reparation and the politics of memory in 'post-conflict' Northern Ireland