Remembrance and forgiveness : global and interdisciplinary perspectives on genocide and mass violence / edited by Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic and Laura Kromjak.
Violent recall: genocide memories, literary representation, and cosmopolitan memory / Pramod K. Nayar. Remembrance and renewal at Tuluwat: returning to the center of the world / Colin Tatz -- Merits and shortcomings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Kerri J. Malloy -- Commemoration and healing: finding a balance between state and local mechanisms for dealing with the historical wounds of the 1965 anti-Communist violence in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia / Heribert Adam and Kanya Adam -- The Red Terror of the Derg regime: memorialization of mass killings in Ethiopia / Mery Kolimon -- Memory and ways to represent judgments against cases of genocide in Argentina: a concept to analyze the written press / Elias O. Opongo -- Genocide memorialization and gendered remembrance in Guatemala and Cambodia / Natalia Paola Crocco -- Reconciling a divided society through truth, memory and forgiveness: lessons from El Salvador and Guatemala / JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Martha C. Galvan Mandujano -- The politics of forgiveness and bearing witness after a genocidal war: three short films from Bosnia-Herzegovina / Joshua R. Snyder -- Competing narratives of destruction and development: the politicization of memory in post-genocide Rwanda / Keith Doubt -- Assessing the many faces of transitional justice in Timor-Leste / Sterling Recker -- Pomnit' nel'zja zabyt': remembering and forgetting the wars in post-Soviet Chechnya / Suranjan Weeraratne -- "Sorry seems to be the hardest word": Israeli peace-oriented NGOs' lack of apologetic discourse / Aude Merlin -- Forgiveness education: rationalization among Arab educators in the Middle East / Yuval Benziman -- South Sudan: difficult road to remembrance and forgiveness / Ilham Nasser and Mohammed Abu-Nimer -- Violent recall: genocide memories, literary representation, and cosmopolitan memory / Pramod K. Nayar.
Summary:
"An enquiry into the social science of remembrance and forgiveness in global episodes of genocide and mass violence during the post-Holocaust era, this volume explores the ways in which these have changed over time and how remembrance and forgiveness have been used in more recent cases of genocide and mass violence. With case studies from Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, South Africa, Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Israel, Palestine, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, the United States, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Chechnya, the volume avoids a purely legal perspective to open up the interpretation of post-genocidal societies, communities, and individuals to international and interdisciplinary perspectives that consider not only forgiveness and thus social harmony, but remembrance and disharmony. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in memory studies, genocide, remembrance, and forgiveness."-- Back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.