Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century /
Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century /
Birgit Schwelling (ed).
- 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations
- Erinnerungskulturen = Memory cultures ; vol. 2 .
- Erinnerungskulturen ; Bd. 2. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Transnational civil society's contribution to reconciliation: an introduction / "A question of humanity in its entirety": Armin T. Wegner as intermediary of reconciliation between Germans and Armenians in interwar German civil society / Mea culpas, negotiations, apologias: revisiting the "apology" of Turkish intellectuals / "A blessed act of oblivion" : human rights, European unity and postwar reconciliation / Franco-German rapprochement and reconciliation in the ecclesial domain: the meeting of bishops in Bühl (1949) and the Congress of Speyer (1950) / A right to irreconcilability? Oradour-sur-Glane, German-French relations and the limits of reconciliation after World War II / From atonement to peace? Aktion Sühnezeichen, German-Israeli relations and the role of youth in reconciliation discourse and practice / Apologising for colonial violence: the documentary film Regresso a Wiriyamu, transitional justice, and Portuguese-Mozambican decolonisation / Facing postcolonial entanglement and the challenge of responsibility: actor constellations between Namibia and Germany / Political reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry / From truth to reconciliation: the global diffusion of truth commissions / About the authors. Birgit Schwelling -- Charlton Payne -- Ayda Erbal -- Soldiers' reconciliation: René Cassin, the International Labour Office, and the search for human rights / Jay Winter -- Marco Duranti -- Ulrike Schröber -- Andea Erkenbrecher -- Christiane Wienand -- Robert Stock -- Reinhart Kössler -- Melinda Sutton -- Anne K. Krüger --
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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.
Birgit Schwelling (Dr. habil.) is the Academic Director of the Research Group on "History and Memory" at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
9783839419311 383941931X
10.14361/transcript.9783839419311 doi
680656 MIL 22573/ctv1wm218 JSTOR 100493 Knowledge Unlatched
Reconciliation--Political aspects.
Apologizing--Social aspects.
Reconciliation--Social aspects.
Collective memory.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Collective memory.
Reconciliation--Political aspects.
franco-german relations. cultural studies. globalization. memory culture. contemporary history. history. politics. political science. reconciliation. war and society. human rights. armenian genocide. history and memory. civil society.
Electronic books.
CB427 / .R43 2012
306.09 323 323 909.82
Includes bibliographical references.
Transnational civil society's contribution to reconciliation: an introduction / "A question of humanity in its entirety": Armin T. Wegner as intermediary of reconciliation between Germans and Armenians in interwar German civil society / Mea culpas, negotiations, apologias: revisiting the "apology" of Turkish intellectuals / "A blessed act of oblivion" : human rights, European unity and postwar reconciliation / Franco-German rapprochement and reconciliation in the ecclesial domain: the meeting of bishops in Bühl (1949) and the Congress of Speyer (1950) / A right to irreconcilability? Oradour-sur-Glane, German-French relations and the limits of reconciliation after World War II / From atonement to peace? Aktion Sühnezeichen, German-Israeli relations and the role of youth in reconciliation discourse and practice / Apologising for colonial violence: the documentary film Regresso a Wiriyamu, transitional justice, and Portuguese-Mozambican decolonisation / Facing postcolonial entanglement and the challenge of responsibility: actor constellations between Namibia and Germany / Political reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Bloody Sunday Inquiry / From truth to reconciliation: the global diffusion of truth commissions / About the authors. Birgit Schwelling -- Charlton Payne -- Ayda Erbal -- Soldiers' reconciliation: René Cassin, the International Labour Office, and the search for human rights / Jay Winter -- Marco Duranti -- Ulrike Schröber -- Andea Erkenbrecher -- Christiane Wienand -- Robert Stock -- Reinhart Kössler -- Melinda Sutton -- Anne K. Krüger --
Open Access
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.
Birgit Schwelling (Dr. habil.) is the Academic Director of the Research Group on "History and Memory" at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
9783839419311 383941931X
10.14361/transcript.9783839419311 doi
680656 MIL 22573/ctv1wm218 JSTOR 100493 Knowledge Unlatched
Reconciliation--Political aspects.
Apologizing--Social aspects.
Reconciliation--Social aspects.
Collective memory.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Collective memory.
Reconciliation--Political aspects.
franco-german relations. cultural studies. globalization. memory culture. contemporary history. history. politics. political science. reconciliation. war and society. human rights. armenian genocide. history and memory. civil society.
Electronic books.
CB427 / .R43 2012
306.09 323 323 909.82