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 |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Bielefeld :
Transcript Verlag,
[2012]
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| Series: | Erinnerungskulturen ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783839419311 383941931X |