Jess Melvin. The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder. Routledge, 2018. Jess Melvin has written a remarkable book. Based on archives and many witness interviews, this study is a breakthrough for establishing the case for the Indonesian military’s orchestration and implementation of the 1965/66 mass killings. Due …
Addressing the history of racial injustices towards African Americans has been the litmus test of U.S. reconciliation efforts (Campbell, 2009). However, over the past several decades, local, state and community actors have embarked on remediating U.S. historical wrongs to further racial reconciliation at the local level. Through political engagement and local community …
Vincent Drulilolle and Roddy Brett, eds. The Politics of Victimhood in Post-conflict Societies: Comparative and Analytical Perspectives. Palgrave, 2018. This volume seeks …
Norman Saadi Nikro and Sonja Hegasy, eds. The Social Life of Memory. Violence, Trauma, and Testimony in Lebanon and Morocco. Palgrave, 2017. …
The Power of Memory and Violence in Central America. Rachel Hatcher. Australia: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. A couple of years ago, as I …
Timothy Williams and Susanne Buckley-Zistel, eds. Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence: Action, Motivations and Dynamics. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. …
Jenny Wüstenberg. Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Germany is considered by most a prime example …
The Performance of Memory as Transitional Justice. Eds. S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser M. Ottanelli. Intersentia, 2015. This edited collection examines memory …
The Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability has published its annual report for 2018. If you are interested in becoming involved in …
Kritika Kultura, an open-access, semi-annual, peer-reviewed international electronic journal of literary, language, and cultural studies of the Department of English of the …