Full Description
The twentieth century has left behind a painful and complicated legacy of massive trauma, monstrous crimes, radical social engineering, or collective/individual guilt syndromes that were often the premises for and the specters haunting the process of democratization in the various societies that emerged out of these profoundly de-structuring contexts. The present manuscript is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framework of understanding. The manuscript is structured on three complementary and interconnected trajectories: the public use of history, politics of memory, and transitional justice.
Contents
Introduction, Part One: Politics of Memory and Constructing Democracy, Daniel Chirot, Part Two : Histories and their Publics, Part Three: Searching for Closure in Democratizing Societies, Part Four : Competing Narratives of Troubled Pasts, List of Contributors, Index
