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: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Bielefeld, Germany
transcript Verlag
2012
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Series: | Erinnerungskulturen / Memory Cultures
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Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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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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ISBN: | transcript.9783839419311 9783837619317 |
Access: | Open Access |