History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence : Time and Justice /

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"Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that the past should be imagined as something 'absent' or 'distant.' Victims of historical injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got 'stuck' in the present and that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bevernage, Berber
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge approaches to history.
Temas:
Terrorism > Government policy.
Victims.
Historiography.
Survivors
Historiography
Terrorisme > Politique gouvernementale.
Victimes.
Historiographie.
historiography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Terrorism > Government policy
Victims
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I 2. 'La Muerte No Existe.' The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the Resistance against the Irreversible Time of History
  • 3. 'We the Victims and Survivors Declare the Past to Be in the Present.' The 'New South Africa' and the Legacy of Apartheid
  • 4. 'The Past Must Remain the Past.' Time of History and Time of Justice in the 'New Sierra Leone'
  • Preliminary Conclusion: What Are Desaparecidos and Disturbed Ancestral Spirits: Trying to Tell Us About History?
  • Part II 5. A Hard Time Thinking the Irrevocable. Why It Is So Difficult to Understand the Haunting Past
  • 6. Searching for Other Times. Some Critiques of the Absent and Distant Past
  • 7. Spectral Times. Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Time
  • 8. History and the Work of Mourning
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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