Remembrance and Forgiveness
An enquiry into the social science of remembrance and forgiveness in global episodes of genocide and mass violence during the post-Holocaust era, this volume explores the ways in which remembrance and forgiveness have changed over time and how they have been used in more recent cases of genocide and mass violence. With case studies from Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Sudan, South Africa, Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Israel, Palestine, Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador, the United States, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Chechnya, the volume avoids a purely legal perspective to open the interpretation of post-genocidal societies, communities, and individuals to global and interdisciplinary perspectives that consider not only forgiveness and thus social harmony, but remembrance and disharmony. This volume will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in memory studies, genocide, remembrance, and forgiveness.
Ajlina Karamehi-Muratovi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
Laura Kromjk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tomori Pl College, Budapest, Hungary.
Memory Studies: Global Constellations
Series editor:
Henri Lustiger-Thaler, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
The past in the present has returned in the early twenty-first century with a vengeance, and with it the expansion of categories of experience. These experiences have largely been lost in the advance of rationalist and constructivist understandings of subjectivity and their collective representations. The cultural stakes around forgetting, useful forgetting and remembering, locally, regionally, nationally and globally have risen exponentially. It is therefore not unusual that migrant memories; micro-histories; personal and individual memories in their interwoven relation to cultural, political and social narratives; the mnemonic past and present of emotions, embodiment and ritual; and finally, the mnemonic spatiality of geography and territories are receiving more pronounced hearings.
This transpires as the social sciences themselves are consciously globalizing their knowledge bases. In addition to the above, the reconstructive logic of memory in the juggernaut of galloping informationalization is rendering it more and more publicly accessible, and therefore part of a new global public constellation around the coding of meaning and experience. Memory studies as an academic field of social and cultural inquiry emerges at a time when global public debate buttressed by the fragmentation of national narratives has accelerated. Societies today, in late globalized conditions, are pregnant with newly unmediated and unfrozen memories once sequestered in wide collective representations. We welcome manuscripts that examine and analyze these profound cultural traces.
Titles in this series
16. Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time Siobhan Kattago
17. Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania -1964: Post-communist Remembering Monica Ciobanu
18. Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence
Ajlina Karamehi-Muratovi and Laura Kromjk
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Remembrance and Forgiveness
Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence
Edited by Ajlina Karamehi-Muratovi and Laura Kromjk
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Names: Karamehic-Muratovic, Ajlina, 1976- editor. |
Kromjak, Laura, 1989- editor.
Title: Remembrance and forgiveness: global and interdisciplinary perspectives on genocide and mass violence / edited by Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic and Laura Kromjak.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Memory studies: global constellations | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020020719 (print) | LCCN 2020020720 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780367351014 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429329746 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Genocide. | Atrocities. | Forgiveness. | Collective memory.
Classification: LCC HV6322.7 .R4625 2021 (print) |
LCC HV6322.7 (ebook) | DDC 303.6dc23
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Contents
Ajlina Karamehi-Muratovi and Laura Kromjk
Colin Tatz
Kerri J. Malloy
Heribert Adam and Kanya Adam
Mery Kolimon
Elias O. Opongo
Natalia Paola Crocco
JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz and Martha C. Galvan Mandujano
Joshua R. Snyder
Keith Doubt
STERLING RECKER
Suranjan Weeraratne
Aude Merlin
Yuval Benziman
Ilham Nasser and Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Alfred Sebit Lokuji
Pramod K. Nayar
David Pettigrew
Mohammed Abu-Nimer is a Professor in the School of International Services at American University, Washington, DC. At the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program, at AU, he served as Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute (19992013). He has conducted inter-religious conflict resolution training and interfaith dialogue workshops in conflict areas around the world, including Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Chad, Niger, Iraq (Kurdistan), Philippines (Mindanao), and Sri Lanka. He also founded Salam Institute for Peace and Justice, an organization that focuses on capacity building, civic education, and intrafaith and interfaith dialogue. In addition to his numerous articles and books, Dr. Abu-Nimer is the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development .