Cargando…
American Memories : Atrocities and the Law /
In the long history of warfare and cultural and ethnic violence, the twentieth century was exceptional for producing institutions charged with seeking accountability or redress for violent offenses and human rights abuses across the globe, often forcing nations to confront the consequences of past a...
| Autor principal: | |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2011]
|
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : how Maurice Halbwachs died and how we remember him
- From law to collective memory : breaking cycles of violence?
- What the literature tells us, and unchartered terrain
- Constructing and remembering the My Lai massacre (with Rajiv Evan Rjan and Lacy Mitchell)
- From Vietnam to Iraq : bridging metaphors, mnemonic struggles, and haunting (with Jeremy Minyard)
- Slobodan Milosevic through lenses of law, diplomacy, and media reporting (with Courtney Faue and Yu-Ju Chien)
- The shape of American memories and a German comparison
- From collective memory to law : theoretical interlude
- How Aamerican memory shapes hate crime law and a German comparison
- Commemorating injustice and implementing hate crime law across jurisdictions in the United States
- Conclusions : atrocities, law and collective memory in America and beyond.