
Justice and Memory - Confronting traumatic pasts
Confronting traumatic pasts. An international comparison
Passagen (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-3-85165-911-5 (ISBN)
Description
Every society must cope with traumatic pasts. The many ways in which societies cope with the past(s) form part of the "politics of the past": history is thus continuously reformulated ex post facto and presented as a seemingly coherent narrative related to specific (hegemonic) interests.
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Series
Language
English
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
602 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-85165-911-5 (9783851659115)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Ruth Wodak is Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies atLancaster University since 2004 (and affiliated to the University of Vienna). Gertraud Auer Borea d'Olmo, Secretary General of the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, Vienna.