"Memory laws are a relatively new category of laws and regulations that aim to explicitly enable the government to impose its views of the past with the goal of censoring what it sees as antinationalism, defamation, distortion, or denial of criminal behavior toward its own people"--Page 1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Mapping memory laws / Elazar Barkan and Ariella Lang -- Part I. European bookends : acknowledging guilt and confronting denial -- French laws for a better past / Henry Rousso -- (De)criminalizing the past : Spain's legal response to history, memory, and historical memory / Stephanie R. Golob -- Part II. WMDs and memory laws : revisiting the Holocaust versus Soviet occupation -- Polish memory laws and the distortion of the history of the Holocaust / Jan Grabowski -- Legislating historical memory in post-Soviet Ukraine / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- Holocaust remembrance, the cult of war, and memory laws in Putin's Russia / Nikolay Koposov -- Protecting memory or criminalizing dissent : memory laws in Lithuania abd Latvia / Eva-Clarita Pettai -- Criminalizing denial as a form of erasure : the Polish-Ukrainian-Isreali triangle / Omer Bartov -- Part III. Memory laws as majoritarian assault -- Memory laws : the continualion of Yugoslav wars by other means / Dubravka Stojanovic -- Communism versus National Socialism : legislation as a tool of selective historical narrative in Hungary / Eszter Kirs -- The perils and limits of memory laws : the case of Israel's "Nakba Law" (2011) / Yifat Gutman -- Memory law and the duty to remember the "1994 genocide against the Tutsi" in Rwanda / Erin Jessee and David Mwambari.
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