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Across the globe guilt has become a contentious issue in discussions over historical accountability and reparation for past injustices. Guilt has become political, and it assumes a highly visible place in the public sphere and academic debate in fields ranging from cultural memory, to transitional justice, post-colonialism, Africana studies, and the study of populist extremism.
This volume argues that guilt is a productive force that helps to balance unequal power dynamics between individuals and groups. Moreover, guilt can also be an ambivalent force affecting social cohesion, moral revolutions, political negotiation, artistic creativity, legal innovation, and other forms of transformations. With chapters bridging the social sciences, law, and humanities, chapter authors examine the role and function of guilt in society and present case studies from seven national contexts. The book approaches guilt as a generative and enduring presence in societies and cultures rather than as an oppressive and destructive burden that necessitates quick release and liberation. It also considers guilt as something that legitimates the future infliction of violence. Finally, it examines the conditions under which guilt promotes transformation, repair, and renewal of relationships.
Contents
Introduction
Matthias Buschmeier and Katharina von Kellenbach
Part I: Guilt as a Prosocial Force in Interpersonal Relations
Guilt as a Positive Motivation for Action? On Vicarious Penance in the History of Christianity
Meinolf Schumacher
White Guilt in the Summer of Black Lives Matter
Lisa B. Spanierman
From Shame to Guilt: Indonesian Strategies against Child Marriage
Nelly van Doorn-Harder
Historical and Survivor Guilt in the Incorporation of Refugees in Germany
John Borneman
Part II: Transforming Guilt Into (Restorative) Justice
The Productivity of Guilt in Criminal Law Discourses
Klaus Günther
Making Guilt Productive: The Case for Restorative Justice in Criminal Law
Valerij Zisman
Guilt With and Without Punishment: On Moral and Legal Guilt in Contexts of Impunity
Dominik Hofmann
Post-War Justice for the Nazi Murders of Patients in Kherson, Ukraine: Comparing German and Soviet Trials
Tanja Penter
Part III: Guilt as Creative Irritation
Rituals of Repentance: Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing"
Katharina von Kellenbach
Performing Guilt: How the Theater of the 1960s Challenged German Memory Culture
Saskia Fischer
Guilty Dreams: Culpability and Reactionary Violence in Gujarat
Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
The Guilt of Warriors
Susan Derwin
Part IV: The Politics of Guilt Negotiations
The Art of Apology: On the True and the Phony in Political Apology
Maria-Sibylla Lotter
Relationships in Transition: Negotiating Accountability and Productive Guilt in Timor Leste
Victor Igreja
Negotiating Germany's War Guilt. On the Emergence of a New International Law in the First World War
Ethel Matala de Mazza
The Absence of Productive Guilt in Shame and Disgrace: Misconceptions in and of German Memory Culture from 1945-2020
Matthias Buschmeier
