Historical justice and memory /edited by Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson.

Historical justice and memory /edited by Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson. - Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Critical human rights .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Beyond the legalist paradigm / Memory culture and human rights: a new constellation / Reparative claims and theories of justice / The political field of reparations / How the past matters: on the foundations of an ethics of remembrance / The politics of memory, victimization and activism in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina / Memories in transition: the Spanish law of historical memory / How can truth telling count as reparations? / Promoting historical justice through truth commissions: an uneasy relationship / Repairing historical wrongs and the end of empire / Historical dialogue: beyond transitional justice and conflict resolution / Memory, justice, and post-terror futures / Klaus Neumann and Janna Thompson -- Andreas Huyssen -- Janna Thompson -- John Torpey -- Jeffrey Blustein -- Elazar Barkan and Belma Becirbasic -- Patrizia Violi -- Margaret Urban Walker -- Onur Bakiner -- Daniel Butt -- Elazar Barkan -- Mark Pendleton.



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Collective memory.
Reparations for historical injustices.
Truth commissions.
Transitional justice.


Electronic Books.

JC578 / .H578 2015