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OverviewThe yearning for historical justice – that is, for the redress of past wrongs – has become one of the defining features of our age. Governments, international bodies and civil society organisations address historical injustices through truth commissions, tribunals, official apologies and other transitional justice measures. Historians produce knowledge of past human rights violations, and museums, memorials and commemorative ceremonies try to keep that knowledge alive and remember the victims of injustices. In this book, researchers with a background in history, archaeology, cultural studies, literary studies and sociology explore the various attempts to recover and remember the past as a means of addressing historic wrongs. Case studies include sites of persecution in Germany, Argentina and Chile, the commemoration of individual victims of Nazi Germany, memories of life under South Africa’s apartheid regime, and the politics of memory in Israel and in Northern Ireland. The authors critique memory, highlight silences and absences, explore how to engage with the ghosts of the past, and ask what drives individuals, including professional historians, to strive for historical justice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Rethinking History. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Klaus Neumann (Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.249kg ISBN: 9781138098831ISBN 10: 1138098833 Pages: 162 Publication Date: 27 July 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Historians and the yearning for historical justice 2. The disappearing museum 3. Stumbling blocks in Germany 4. The ethics of nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa 5. Excavating Tempelhof airfield: objects of memory and the politics of absence 6. Jewish Haifa denies its Arab past 7. Ghosts and compañeros: haunting stories and the quest for justice around Argentina’s former terror sites 8. The desire for justice, psychic reparation and the politics of memory in ‘post-conflict’ Northern IrelandReviewsAuthor InformationKlaus Neumann is a trained historian who works as a research professor at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, Australia. Recent titles include Across the Seas: Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History (2015) and Historical Justice (ed., with Janna Thompson, 2015). He is currently researching issues of historical justice, the policy response to refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants, and the politics of compassion. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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