Reconciliation, Civil Society, And The Politics Of Memory —— Transnational Initiatives In The 20th And 21st Century

----- 和解、公民社会与记忆政治

ISBN: 9783837619317 出版年：2012 页码：373 Birgit Schwelling transcript Verlag

How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? the essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors – from turkish intellectuals apologizing for the armenian genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of franco-german relations – have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion.