Drawing on detailed accounts of post-war Cambodia, Rwanda and Indonesia, this book provides an original exploration of how memory is utilised politically in societies that have experienced mass violence.
Cuprins
1. Introduction
2. Memoryscapes’ Complex Negotiation of the Past and Present: Mnemonic Role Attributions and Ambivalence
3. Cambodia: From Demonization to Universal Victimhood
4. Rwanda: Ethnic Essentialism and Rwandan Patriotic Front Heroism
5. Indonesia: Ambivalent Silence and Communist Threat Constructions
6. Mnemonic Role Attributions and Ambivalence in Post-Violence Memoryscapes: Comparative Insights
7. Conclusion
Despre autor
Timothy Williams is Junior Professor of Insecurity and Social Order at the Institute for Political Science in the Department of Social Science and Public Affairs at the University of Munich, Germany.
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