Timothy Williams

Memory Politics after Mass Violence (eBook, ePUB)

Attributing Roles in the Memoryscape

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how political actors draw on memories of violent pasts to generate political power and legitimacy in the present. Drawing on fieldwork in post-violence Cambodia, Rwanda and Indonesia, the book demonstrates in what way power is derived from how roles are assigned, exploring who is deemed a perpetrator, victim or hero, as well as uncertainties in this memory.

The author interrogates the ways in which these roles are attributed and ambivalences created in each society's political discourses, transitional justice processes and cultural heritage. The comparative empirical analysis illustrates the importance of memory for political power and legitimacy today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529227604
• Artikelnr.: 72263657

Autorenporträt

Timothy Williams is Junior Professor of Insecurity and Social Order at the Institute for Political Science in the Department of Social Science and Public Affairs at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany.