Remembering and forgetting 'Zimbabwe': towards a third transition / Christine Sylvester -- Contested memories of repression in the Southern cone: commemorations in a comparative perspective / Elizabeth Jelin -- "What is written in our hearts': memory, justice, and the healing of fragmented communities / Victoria Sanford -- Memory and forgetting: the Roma Holocaust / Istvǹ Pogǹy -- Continuity and discontinuity of East German identity following the fall of the Berlin wall: a case study / Molly Andrews -- Mobilising memories: Protestant and Unionist victims' groups and the politics of victimhood in the Irish peace process / Graham Dawson -- 'In the name of the victims': the politics of compensation in the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Lars Buur -- The construction of voice and identity in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Fiona C. Ross -- Remembering ordinary agency under East German state socialism: revelations of the Rostock district record, 1978-89 / Joan Hackeling -- Insinuating spaces: memories of a Madrid neighbourhood during the Spanish transition / Steven Marsh -- Public bad, public good(s) and private realities / Carolyn Nordstrom -- The politics of memory and international trials for wartime rape / Julie Mertus -- Networks of memory: Chileans debate democracy and the Pinochet legacy over an internet forum / Eliza Tanner Hawkins -- Reconciling reconciliation: a personal and public journey of testifying before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Yazir Henri -- Empire dies for Irish freedom: silence and amnesia in Anglo-Irish talks / Ella O'Dwyer.
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In the twentieth century, many countries around the globe experienced rapid and often traumatic political transformations. From East Germany and Northern Ireland to Argentina, Chile and Zimbabwe, political transition has been momentous and has had a deep impact on the individual culture of each society. This collection explores these periods of political transition and the impact that they have had through an analysis of memory, identity, space/place and voice. Concentrating in particular on post-colonial and post-oppressive regimes in Europe, Southern Africa and Latin America, the contributors assess how individuals come to terms with rapid political change, and the enduring legacies of the past in the present. They examine how political transformations affect people's memories and identities, reworking spaces/places and voices, and how both offical and unofficial mechanisms set up to cope with these changes impact on these issues. Juxtaposing different country and regional experiences and different historical eras, this is a comprehensive guide to the vast range of issues involved in political transition that will appeal to a multidisciplinary audience.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt18fmw9z
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Title
Political transition.
International Standard Book Number
9780745320427
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Political culture, Case studies.
Political science.
Casestudies.
Political culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.