Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to identify links between the politics of memory, media representations and the politics of justice, questioning what we think we know and understand about recent history.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2012

ISBN

9781137265173

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Media Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Public Media and the Right to Memory: Towards an Encounter with Justice
1 Rethinking Justice in Peru: Between Public Amnesia and Public Memory
2 Images of Disappearance in Argentina: How Films, Photos, and Television Buttress Memory
3 East Timor, the USA, and Mass Atrocities: Remembering and Forgetting
4 Justice, Media, and Memory: The South African Transition
5 A Time of Mourning: The Politics of Commemorating the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda
6 The European Roma: An Unsettled Right to Memory
7 The Chechen Memory of Deportation: From Recalling a Silenced Past to the Political Use of Public Memory
8 ‘Media Memories’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina
9 Slavery and Emancipation in the Caribbean: Preserving the Public Memory
Endnote
Index