Additional Information
Book Details
Abstract
In the twentieth century, many countries around the globe experienced rapid and often traumatic political transformations. From East Germany and Northern Ireland to Argentina, Chile and Zimbabwe, political transition has been momentous and has had a deep impact on the individual culture of each society.
This collection explores these periods of political transition and the impact that they have had through an analysis of memory, identity, space/place and voice. Concentrating in particular on post-colonial and post-oppressive regimes in Europe, Southern Africa and Latin America, the contributors assess how individuals come to terms with rapid political change, and the enduring legacies of the past in the present. They examine how political transformations affect people's memories and identities, reworking spaces/places and voices, and how both offical and unofficial mechanisms set up to cope with these changes impact on these issues.
Juxtaposing different country and regional experiences and different historical eras, this is a comprehensive guide to the vast range of issues involved in political transition.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| 1 Introduction | 1 | ||
| 2 Remembering and Forgetting Zimbabwe : Towards a Third Transition | 29 | ||
| 3 Contested Memories of Repression in the Southern Cone: Commemorations in a Comparative Perspective | 53 | ||
| 4 What is Written in Our Hearts : Memory, Justice and the Healing of Fragmented Communities | 70 | ||
| 5 Memory and Forgetting: The Roma Holocaust | 90 | ||
| 6 Continuity and Discontinuity of East German Identity Following the Fall of the Berlin Wall | 107 | ||
| 7 Mobilising Memories: Protestant and Unionist Victims Groups and the Politics of Victimhood in the Irish Pea | 127 | ||
| 8 In the Name of the Victims : The Politics of Compensation in the Work of the South African Truth and Reco | 148 | ||
| 9 The Construction of Voice and Identity in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission | 165 | ||
| 10 Remembering Ordinary Agency Under East German State Socialism: Revelations of the Rostock District Record, 1978 89 | 183 | ||
| 11 Insinuating Spaces: Memories of a Madrid Neighbourhood During the Spanish Transition | 198 | ||
| 12 Public Bad, Public Good( s) and Private Realities | 212 | ||
| 13 The Politics of Memory and International Trials for Wartime Rape | 227 | ||
| 14 Networks of Memory: Chileans Debate Democracy and the Pinochet Legacy Over an Internet Forum | 246 | ||
| 15 Reconciling Reconciliation: A Personal and Public Journey of Testifying Before the South African Trut | 262 | ||
| 16 Empire Dies for Irish Freedom: Silence and Amnesia in Anglo- Irish Talks | 276 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 290 | ||
| Index | 294 | ||
| amnesty/impunity | 154 | ||
| , 154-5 | 154 | ||
| , 166 | 166 | ||
| , 259 | 259 | ||
| Angolan war/peace 15 | 15 | ||
| Bayart,J-F.,S.Ellis and B.Hibou 219 | 219 | ||
| Beckett,Samuel | 8 | ||
| Beckett,Samuel, 8 | 8 | ||
| Beckett,Samuel, 282-5 | 282 | ||
| Berdahl,D. 4n10 | 4 | ||
| Bhabha,H. | 8 | ||
| Bhabha,H., 8 | 8 | ||
| Bhabha,H., 280 | 280 | ||
| Bhabha,H., 286 | 286 | ||
| Bohley,B. | 19 | ||
| Bohley,B., 19 | 19 | ||
| Bohley,B., 121-2 | 121 | ||
| Boraine,A. | 10 | ||
| Boraine,A., 10 | 10 | ||
| Boraine,A., 160-1 | 160 | ||
| Brazil 3 | 3 | ||
| Chakrabarty,D. | 2 | ||
| Chakrabarty,D., 2 | 2 | ||
| Chakrabarty,D., 49n13 | 49 | ||
| Chile | 5 | ||
| Allende, 5 | 5 | ||
| Allende, 259 | 259 | ||
| La Tercera , 50 | 50 | ||
| Pinochet, 7 | 7 | ||
| Pinochet, 86 | 86 | ||
| Pinochet, 246-9 | 246 | ||
| Cold War/post-Cold War 213 | 213 | ||
| commemoration | 9 | ||
| , 9 | 9 | ||
| , 55-66 | 55 | ||
| , 79 | 79 | ||
| , 97 | 97 | ||
| , 142 | 142 | ||
| , 199 | 199 | ||
| , 204 | 204 | ||
| , 272-3 | 272 | ||
| Crowe,D. 4 | 4 | ||
| Dawidowicz,L. 2 | 2 | ||
| de Certeau,M. 6 | 6 | ||
| Dewar,M.,J.Brown and S.Long 132 | 132 | ||
| ethnic cleansing | 5 | ||
| ethnic cleansing, 5 | 5 | ||
| ethnic cleansing, 137 | 137 | ||
| ethnic cleansing, 140 | 140 | ||
| exhumations | 5 | ||
| exhumations, 5 | 5 | ||
| exhumations, 77-9 | 77 | ||
| exhumations, 81 | 81 | ||
| exhumations, 86-7 | 86 | ||
| Fings,K.,H.Heuss and F.Sparing 90 | 90 | ||
| Finlay,L. | 1 | ||
| Finlay,L., 1 | 1 | ||
| Finlay,L., 143n3 | 143 | ||
| Foster,A. | 4 | ||
| Foster,A., 4 | 4 | ||
| Foster,A., 143n3 | 143 | ||
| Foucault,M. 4 | 4 | ||
| Fraser,A. 5 | 5 | ||
| Frazer,W. | 2 | ||
| Frazer,W., 2 | 2 | ||
| Frazer,W., 143n3 | 143 | ||
| genocide | 10 | ||
| genocide, 10 | 10 | ||
| genocide, 71-2 | 71 | ||
| genocide, 84 | 84 | ||
| genocide, 85 | 85 | ||
| genocide, 86 | 86 | ||
| genocide, 90-1 | 90 | ||
| genocide, 96 | 96 | ||
| genocide, 132 | 132 | ||
| genocide, 247 | 247 | ||
| Germany/East Germany | 13 | ||
| Berlin Wall, 13 | 13 | ||
| Stasi , 20 | 20 | ||
| Stasi , 188 | 188 | ||
| Stasi , 194n9 | 194 | ||
| unification, 10 | 10 | ||
| unification, 115-20 | 115 | ||
| unification, 185 | 185 | ||
| unification, 193-4 | 193 | ||
| Goldblatt,B.and S.Meintjes 175 | 175 | ||
| Guatemala | 71 | ||
| 71 | 71 | ||
| civil patrols 79-85 | 79 | ||
| Commission for Historical Clarification [CEH], 2 | 2 | ||
| Commission for Historical Clarification [CEH], 74 | 74 | ||
| Commission for Historical Clarification [CEH], 79 | 79 | ||
| Commission for Historical Clarification [CEH], 83-4 | 83 | ||
| Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation [FAFG] | 1 | ||
| Plan de Sánchez massacre, 1 | 1 | ||
| Plan de Sánchez massacre, 73-9 | 73 | ||
| Plan de Sánchez massacre, 81-2 | 81 | ||
| Río Negro trial, 84 | 84 | ||
| , 86 | 86 | ||
| Habermas,J. 9 | 9 | ||
| Hacking,I. 1 | 1 | ||
| human rights abuses | 43 | ||
| human rights abuses, 43-4 | 43 | ||
| human rights abuses, 53-66 | 53 | ||
| human rights abuses, 71-2 | 71 | ||
| human rights abuses, 83-4 | 83 | ||
| human rights abuses, 90 | 90 | ||
| human rights abuses, 97 | 97 | ||
| human rights abuses, 128 | 128 | ||
| human rights abuses, 131 | 131 | ||
| human rights abuses, 136-7 | 136 | ||
| human rights abuses, 165-6 | 165 | ||
| human rights abuses, 169-73 | 169 | ||
| human rights abuses, 217 | 217 | ||
| human rights abuses, 221 | 221 | ||
| human rights activists/organisations | 61 | ||
| in transitions, 61 | 61 | ||
| in transitions, 206 | 206 | ||
| international human rights law, 11-12 | 11 | ||
| human rights debating human rights | 54 | ||
| defining gross violations, 54 | 54 | ||
| defining gross violations, 157-60 | 157 | ||
| defining gross violations, 166-7 | 166 | ||
| defining gross violations, 170 | 170 | ||
| defining gross violations, 174-6 | 174 | ||
| defining gross violations, 274 | 274 | ||
| global/local, 2 | 2 | ||
| global/local, 73 | 73 | ||
| global/local, 79 | 79 | ||
| global/local, 227-30 | 227 | ||
| , 254 | 254 | ||
| , 256-60 | 256 | ||
| Human Rights Watch | 14 | ||
| Human Rights Watch, 14 | 14 | ||
| Human Rights Watch, 218 | 218 | ||
| Hutton,P. 8 | 8 | ||
| identity | 7 | ||
| collective identity, 7 | 7 | ||
| collective identity, 78-9 | 78 | ||
| collective identity, 101 | 101 | ||
| collective identity, 109 | 109 | ||
| collective identity, 118-21 | 118 | ||
| collective identity, 128 | 128 | ||
| collective identity, 132-3 | 132 | ||
| collective identity, 137 | 137 | ||
| contested/complex identities, 108-11 | 108 | ||
| contested/complex identities, 117-22 | 117 | ||
| contested/complex identities, 133 | 133 | ||
| contested/complex identities, 138 | 138 | ||
| continuity and change, 11 | 11 | ||
| continuity and change, 115 | 115 | ||
| continuity and change, 116-22 | 116 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 129 | 129 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 139 | 139 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 148-54 | 148 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 157-60 | 157 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 166-7 | 166 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 170 | 170 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 174-6 | 174 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 265 | 265 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 270-1 | 270 | ||
| defining victim,and victimhood, 274 | 274 | ||
| individual identity | 10 | ||
| national identity, 10 | 10 | ||
| national identity, 113-21 | 113 | ||
| national identity, 176 | 176 | ||
| national identity, 259 | 259 | ||
| national identity, 286-8 | 286 | ||
| politics of victimhood, 123n8 | 123 | ||
| politics of victimhood, 127-42 | 127 | ||
| politics of victimhood, 148-61 | 148 | ||
| politics of victimhood, 166-7 | 166 | ||
| politics of victimhood, 169 | 169 | ||
| politics of victimhood, 177n10 | 177 | ||
| rape victim/survivor, 9 | 9 | ||
| rape victim/survivor, 231-2 | 231 | ||
| rape victim/survivor, 236 | 236 | ||
| rape victim/survivor, 242-3 | 242 | ||
| IRA | 30 | ||
| the peace process, 30 | 30 | ||
| the peace process, 133 | 133 | ||
| the peace process, 137-9 | 137 | ||
| the peace process, 141 | 141 | ||
| the peace process, 280-2 | 280 | ||
| the peace process, 284 | 284 | ||
| Ulster Defence Regiment, 134-5 | 134 | ||
| Ulster Defence Regiment, 137 | 137 | ||
| Ulster Defence Regiment, 140-1 | 140 |