The arts of transitional justice : culture, activism, and memory after atrocity /

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Imprint:New York : Springer, ©2014.
Description:xviii, 198 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Springer series in transitional justice ; volume 6
Springer series in transitional justice ; v. 6.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9852281
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Other authors / contributors:Rush, Peter, 1959-
Simić, Olivera.
ISBN:9781461483847
1461483840
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This volume seeks to understand the significant and plural role that artists, works of art and more broadly aesthetic performances have played in societies in transition." --P. [4] of cover.
Table of Contents:
  • Fields of opportunity: cultural invention and 'The new Northern Ireland' / Eugene McNamee
  • Artistic activism, public debate and temporal complexities: fighting for transitional justice in Serbia / Laura McLeod, Jovana Dimitrijević, Biliana Rakočević
  • Education and photography at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum / Maria Elander
  • Dispersed truths and displaced memories: extraterritorial witnessing and memorializing by diaspora through public art / Fayen d'Evie
  • Ariel Dorfman's Death and the maiden as a mirror reflecting the delemmas of transitional justice policy / Padraig McAuliffe
  • Enacting justice: the role of Dah Theatre Company in transitional justice processes in Serbia and beyond / Olivera Simić, Dijana Milošević
  • Culture, theatre and justice: examples of Afghanistan / Nadia Siddiqui, Hadi Marifat, Sari Kouvo
  • Bleak visions of Literary justice for survivors of Srebrenica: examining the fictional narratives of Srebrenica genocide in light of the insights from transitional justice / Ajla Demiracić, Edin Hodžić
  • Memorial culture in the former Yugoslavia: mothers of Srebenica and the destruction of artefacts by the ICTY / Olivera Simić
  • (Mis)representations of transitional justice: contradictions in displaying history, memory and art in the Skopje 2014 project / Despina Angelovska.