Memory Politics after Mass Violence : Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape (Spaces of Peace, Security and Development)

Williams, Timothy

Bristol University Press（2025/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 254 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781529227581
• DDC分類 320.01

Full Description

This book explores how political actors draw on memories of violent pasts to generate political power and legitimacy in the present. Drawing on fieldwork in post-violence Cambodia, Rwanda and Indonesia, the book demonstrates in what way power is derived from how roles are assigned, exploring who is deemed a perpetrator, victim or hero, as well as ambivalences in this memory.

The author interrogates the ways in which these roles are attributed and ambivalences created in each society's political discourses, transitional justice processes and cultural heritage. The comparative empirical analysis illustrates the importance of memory for political power and legitimacy today.

Contents

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