Historical justice, the practice of recognizing and rectifying past injustices, is more widely embraced than ever before, but also, paradoxically, more resisted. For the past several decades, a global “memory boom” has helped to illuminate past injustices, and more initiatives than ever before have materialized to excavate and redress systemic …
This is a highly legal and technical book by a university professor and as such it is tempting to understand this volume solely as an academic – in every sense of the work – contribution to human rights literature. However, when its author, Grażyna Baranowska, is not only a Professor …
The horrors of the Holocaust could not have occurred without the railway cars and the personnel that transported millions of victims to …
In his latest book, political scientist Stephen Winter offers an analysis of redress programmes intended to provide economic compensation for different forms …
First of all, believe the praise on the cover. This is a compendious collection which supports the view that the contemporary fascination …
Having followed Björn Krondorfer’s work with great interest, I had the utmost curiosity about reviewing his newest book, Unsettling Empathy: Working with …
Survivor Memorials: Remembering Trauma and Loss in Contemporary Australia offers a detailed documentation of “memory space” (3) focusing on the contemporary memorialisation …
The Remains of Socialism:Memory and the Futures of the Past in Postsocialist Hungary is a great contribution toward the understanding of the …
Halfway through the book, Eliza Garnsey quotes a clerk from the United States: “Art and justice perform different functions which often strive …
Briony Jones and Ulrike Lühe (eds.) Knowledge for Peace: Transitional Justice and the Politics of Knowledge in Theory and Practice Edward Elgar …