TY - BOOK ID - 15992421 TI - Reconciliation, civil society, and the politics of memory : transnational initiatives in the 20th and 21st century AU - Schwelling, Birgit AU - Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection PY - 2012 SN - 383941931X 3837619311 132249374X PB - Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Reconciliation KW - Apologizing KW - Collective memory. KW - Political aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Collective remembrance KW - Common memory KW - Cultural memory KW - Emblematic memory KW - Historical memory KW - National memory KW - Public memory KW - Social memory KW - Peace making KW - Peacemaking KW - Reconciliatory behavior KW - Apology (Psychology) KW - Memory KW - Social psychology KW - Group identity KW - National characteristics KW - Quarreling KW - Social interaction KW - Armenian Genocide. KW - Civil Society. KW - Contemporary History. KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Franco-German Relations. KW - Globalization. KW - Human Rights. KW - Memory Culture. KW - Political Science. KW - Politics. KW - Reconciliation. KW - War and Society. KW - History and Memory; War and Society; Reconciliation; Armenian Genocide; Franco-German Relations; Human Rights; Contemporary History; Memory Culture; Politics; Globalization; Civil Society; Political Science; Cultural Studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15992421 AB - 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. »Der Sammelband [bietet] einen überzeugenden Einblick in Prozesse und Formen der ›transitional justice‹, die oft so gar nicht in das standardmäßige Repertoire auf diesem Gebiet passen wollen und unterstützt damit auch eine stärkere Berücksichtigung der lokalen und kulturellen Bezüge in Versuchen der Verarbeitung vergangener Verbrechen.« Julia Kling, Südost-Forschungen, 73 (2014) »Ein gelungener Sammelband, der mit der Breite seiner Beispiele das Verständnis von Versöhnungsprozessen jenseits nationaler Grenzen erweitert.« Ilse Raaijmakers, H-Soz-u-Kult, 02.05.2013 Reviewed in: Wissenschaft und Frieden, 1 (2013) www.pw-portal.de, 25.06.2013, Björn Wagner ER -