Memorials in Times of Transition

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Memorials in Times of Transition - Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Stefanie Schafer 1. Social Memory, Memorials and Meaning 2. Memorialisation, Memorials and Transitional Justice 3. Forms of Memorials in Times of Transition 4. Structure of the Volume Bibliography I. CONNECTING TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND MEMORIALS Chapter 1. Memorialisation in Post-conflict Societies in Africa: Potentials and Challenges - Ereshnee Naidu 1. Debates in the Field of Transitional Justice 2. Symbolic Reparations and Memorialisation in Post-conflict Societies 3. Memorialisation: Fuelling Underlying Divisions? 4. Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 2. Reflecting the Fractured Past: Memorialisation, Transitional Justice and the Role of Outsiders - Judy Barsalou 1. Defining Memorialisation: Forms, Timing, Initiators and Intentions 2. Memorialisation and Types of Conflict 2.1. Dictatorships and Political Repression 2.2. Ethnic Conflict 2.3. Mass Killings and Genocide 3. Connecting Memorialisation to Transitional Justice and Reconciliation 4. Getting Involved: The Role of Outsiders in Memorialisation 5. Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 3. Aletheia and the Making of the World: Inner and Outer Dimensions of Memorials in Rwanda - Julia Viebach 1. Memorialisation in Rwanda 2. Inside and Outside of Memorials 2.1. Making the World: Inside of Memorials 2.1.1. To the Beginnings: The Unmaking of the World 2.1.2. Fragments of World Alteration: The Practice of Care-taking and Human Remains as Collective Artefacts 2.2. Aletheia: The Outer Dimension of Memorials 2.2.1. Memory-Truth 2.2.2. Memory-Justice 2.2.3. The Unforgotten: Suffering and Victimhood in the Visuality and Materiality of Memorials 3. Juxtaposing Aletheia and Making the World or Juxtaposing Inner and Outer Dimensions . 92 Bibliography II. MEMORIAL SPACES AND REPRESENTATION Chapter 4. Detained in the Memorial Hohenschonhausen: Heterotopias, Narratives and Transitions from the Stasi Past in Germany - Susanne Buckley-Zistel 1. The Berlin-Hohenschonhausen Memorial Museum 2. Analysing Memorial Museums 3. Of Other Spaces: Inside Hohenschonhausen 3.1. The Physical Structures 3.2. The Guided Tours 4. Out of Other Spaces: Outside Hohenschonhausen 4.1. Transitional Justice and Memory in Germany 4.2. Competing Narratives and the 'Aufarbeitungskombinat' 5. The Gap between Transition and Justice 119 Bibliography Chapter 5. Stories of Beginnings and Endings: Settler Colonial Memorials in Australia - Elizabeth Strakosch 1. Settler Colonialism 2. Colonial Beginnings 3. Colonial Endings 4. Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Memorials 5. Reconciliation Place as Colonial Ending 6. Conclusion 144 Bibliography Chapter 6. Manicured Nails but Shackled Hands? The Representation of Women in Northern Ireland's Post-conflict Memory - Kristian Brown 1. The Northern Ireland Troubles 2. Transitional Justice and Memorialisation in a Divided Society 3. Women and Memory in Northern Ireland 3.1. A Complex Gender Matrix: Nationalisms, Peace-making and 'the Troubles' 3.2. Gendered Memories of the Northern Ireland Conflict: Marginalisation 4. The Representation of Women in Irish Republican Memorials 4.1. Women and Historical Struggle 4.2. Woman as Fighter 4.3. Woman as Prisoner 4.4. Woman as Victim 4.5. Woman as Symbol of the Nation 4.6. Woman as Resisting Citizen 4.7. Woman as Icon or Martyr 4.8. Woman as Mother 5. Representations of Republican Women: Beyond Marginalisation? 6. Possible Futures in Representing the Past 7. Conclusion 168 Bibliography III. CONTESTATION AND POLITISATION OF MEMORIALS Chapter 7. The Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial: Promoting (In)Justice? - Christian Braun 1. The Srebrenica Memorial as an Example for Memorials in Divided Societies 2. The Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial 2.1. The Form of the Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial 2.2. Exploring the Memorial: The Narratives of Commemorating Genocide 2.3. Narratives of Remembrance 2.4. Conceiving and Construction of the Memorial 2.4.1. The Serb Community: Denial and Obstruction 2.4.2. The International Community: Between Security and Shame 2.4.3. The Bosniaks: Mourning, Revenge and Political Benefits 2.5. The Memorial in the Mind of the Community 3. Transitional Justice in Divided Societies 194 Bibliography Chapter 8. Memorials, Memorialisation and Social Action in Santiago de Chile - Katrien Klep 1. Transitional Justice and Memorialisation 2. The Cemetery: Mourning and Demands of Justice at the Memorial del Detenido Desaparecido y del Ejecutado Politico 3. The City: Political Agency and Public Debate at Londres 38, Espacio de Memorias 4. Local and National Dynamics of Memorialisation 215 Bibliography Chapter 9. Commemorating the Famine as Genocide: The Contested Meanings of Holodomor Memorials in Ukraine - Tatiana Zhurzhenko 1. The Holodomor as Genocide: National Memory in the Age of Globalisation 2. Memorialising the Holodomor as Genocide 3. The 'Candle of Memory': The National Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor in Kyiv 4. The Holodomor Memorial in Kharkiv 5. Conclusion Bibliography About the Authors