Format:
xvii, 220 p.
ISBN:
9781137265173
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Content:
Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to identify links between the politics of memory, media representations and the politics of justice, questioning what we think we know and understand about recent history.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Public Media and the Right to Memory: Towards an Encounter with Justice -- 1 Rethinking Justice in Peru: Between Public Amnesia and Public Memory -- 2 Images of Disappearance in Argentina: How Films, Photos, and Television Buttress Memory -- 3 East Timor, the USA, and Mass Atrocities: Remembering and Forgetting -- 4 Justice, Media, and Memory: The South African Transition -- 5 A Time of Mourning: The Politics of Commemorating the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda -- 6 The European Roma: An Unsettled Right to Memory -- 7 The Chechen Memory of Deportation: From Recalling a Silenced Past to the Political Use of Public Memory -- 8 'Media Memories' in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 9 Slavery and Emancipation in the Caribbean: Preserving the Public Memory -- Endnote -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230354067
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780230354067
Language:
English
