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1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations |
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Erinnerungskulturen = Memory cultures ; vol. 2 |
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Erinnerungskulturen ; Bd. 2.
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| Contents |
Transnational civil society's contribution to reconciliation: an introduction / Birgit Schwelling -- "A question of humanity in its entirety": Armin T. Wegner as intermediary of reconciliation between Germans and Armenians in interwar German civil society / Charlton Payne -- Mea culpas, negotiations, apologias: revisiting the "apology" of Turkish intellectuals / Ayda Erbal -- Soldiers' reconciliation: René Cassin, the International Labour Office, and the search for human rights / Jay Winter -- "A blessed act of oblivion" : human rights, European unity and postwar reconciliation / Marco Duranti -- Franco-German rapprochement and reconciliation in the ecclesial domain: the meeting of bishops in Bühl (1949) and the Congress of Speyer (1950) / Ulrike Schröber -- A right to irreconcilability? Oradour-sur-Glane, German-French relations and the limits of reconciliation after World War II / Andea Erkenbrecher -- From atonement to peace? Aktion Sühnezeichen, German-Israeli relations and the role of youth in reconciliation discourse and practice / Christiane Wienand -- Apologising for colonial violence: the documentary film Regresso a Wiriyamu, transitional justice, and Portuguese-Mozambican decolonisation / Robert Stock -- Facing postcolonial entanglement and the challenge of responsibility: actor constellations between Namibia and Germany / Reinhart Kössler -- Political reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry / Melinda Sutton -- From truth to reconciliation: the global diffusion of truth commissions / Anne K. Krüger -- About the authors |
| Summary |
How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives since the beginning of the 20th century? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors - from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious organizations working towards the improvement of Franco-German relations - have confronted and coped with the past. These studies offer a critical perspective on local and transnational reconciliation acts by questioning the extent to which speech became an alternative to silence, remembrance to forgetting, engagement to oblivion |
| Analysis |
franco-german relations |
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cultural studies |
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globalization |
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memory culture |
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contemporary history |
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history |
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politics |
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political science |
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reconciliation |
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war and society |
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human rights |
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armenian genocide |
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history and memory |
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civil society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Birgit Schwelling (Dr. habil.) is the Academic Director of the Research Group on "History and Memory" at the University of Konstanz, Germany |
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This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode |
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Print version record |
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Reconciliation -- Political aspects
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Apologizing -- Social aspects
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Reconciliation -- Social aspects
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Collective memory.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Society and culture: general.
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Cultural studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Collective memory
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Reconciliation -- Political aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schwelling, Birgit, 1967- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783839419311 |
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383941931X |
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