Neuerscheinung: Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory. Herausgegeben von Birgit Schwelling
5. November 2012
Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century. Bielefeld: transcript 2012.
Zitation
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. (Verlag)
Die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Dr. habil. Birgit Schwelling leitet die Forschungsgruppe „Geschichte + Gedächtnis“ an der Universität Konstanz. Derzeit vertritt sie die Professur für Allgemeine Soziologie und Kultursoziologie an der Universität Konstanz. Der vorliegende Band entstand mit Unterstützung des Exzellenzclusters „Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration“.