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Legal institutions and collective memories

Karstedt, Susanne

2009

نظرة عامة

In recent decades the debate among scholars, lawyers, politicians and others about how societies deal with their past has been constant and intensive. 'Legal Institutions and Collective Memories' situates the processes of transitional justice at the intersection between legal procedures and the production of collective and shared meanings of the past. Building upon the work of Maurice Halbwachs, this collection of essays emphasises the extended role and active involvement of contemporary law and legal institutions in public discourse about the past, and explores their impact on the shape that collective memories take in the course of time. The authors uncover a complex pattern of searching for truth, negotiating the past and cultivating the art of forgetting. Their contributions explore the ambiguous and intricate links between the production of justice, truth and memory.

• الناشر: Hart Publishing Ltd,Hart,Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,Bloomsbury Publishing,Hart Publishing
• موضوع: Collective memory / Criminal justice, Administration of / History / Justice, Administration of / Memory / Memory -- Social aspects / Reparations for historical injustices
• ISBN: 1841133272, 9781847315236, 1847315232, 1841133264, 9781841133263, 9781841133270