
Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory
Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
Birgit Schwelling(Editor)
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1st Edition
Published on 20. September 2012
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372 pages
978-3-8376-1931-7 (ISBN)
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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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Reviewed in: Wissenschaft und Frieden, 1 (2013)www.pw-portal.de, 25.06.2013, Björn WagnerMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Klappenbroschur
Dimensions
Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
576 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8376-1931-7 (9783837619317)
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Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory
Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century
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Birgit Schwelling (Dr. habil.) is the Academic Director of the Research Group on >>History and Memory<< at the University of Konstanz, Germany.