Reconciliation, Civil Society, and the Politics of Memory: Transnational Initiatives in the 20th and 21st Century

Birgit Schwelling

2014. okt. · Erinnerungskulturen / Memory Cultures 2. kötet · transcript Verlag

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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.

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Birgit Schwelling (Dr. habil.) is the Academic Director of the Research Group on »History and Memory« at the University of Konstanz, Germany.