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Auteur(s) : Bevernage, Berber
Titre(s) : History, memory, and state-sponsored violence [Texte imprimé] : time and justice / Berber Bevernage
Publication : New York : Routledge, 2012
Description matérielle : xii, 250 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Routledge approaches to history ; 4
Lien à la collection : Routledge approaches to history
Comprend : Preface -- ; Acknowledgments --1 ; Introduction --Part I2 ; 'La Muerte No Existe.'
The Madres de Plaza de Mayo and the Resistance against the Irreversible Time of History
--3 ; 'We the Victims and Survivors Declare the Past to Be in the Present.' The 'New
South Africa' and the Legacy of Apartheid --4 ; 'The Past Must Remain the Past.' Time
of History and Time of Justice in the 'New Sierra Leone' -- ; Preliminary Conclusion:
What Are Desaparecidos and Disturbed Ancestral Spirits: Trying to Tell Us About History?
--Part II5 ; A Hard Time Thinking the Irrevocable. Why It Is So Difficult to Understand
the Haunting Past --6 ; Searching for Other Times. Some Critiques of the Absent and
Distant Past --7 ; Spectral Times. Jacques Derrida and the Deconstruction of Time
--8 ; History and the Work of Mourning -- ; Conclusion -- ; Notes -- ; Bibliography
-- ; Index.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p.[217]-240) and index
"Modern historiography embraces the notion that time is irreversible, implying that
the past should be imagined as something "absent" or "distant." Victims of historical
injustice, however, in contrast, often claim that the past got "stuck" in the present
and that it retains a haunting presence. History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence
is centered around the provocative thesis that the way one deals with historical injustice
and the ethics of history is strongly dependent on the way one conceives of historical
time; that the concept of time traditionally used by historians is structurally more
compatible with the perpetrators than the victims point of view. Demonstrating that
the claim of victims about the continuing presence of the past should be taken seriously,
instead of being treated as merely metaphorical, Berber Bevernage argues that a genuine
understanding of the irrevocable past demands a radical break with modern historical
discourse and the concept of time. By embedding a profound philosophical reflection
on the themes of historical time and historical discourse in a concrete series of
case studies, this project transcends the traditional divide between empirical historiography
on the one hand and the so called theoretical approaches to history on the other.
It also breaks with the conventional analytical philosophy of history that has been
dominant during the last decades, raising a series of long-neglected big questions
about the historical condition questions about historical time, the unity of history,
and the ontological status of present and past programmatically pleading for a new
historical ethics"--
Sujet(s) : Terrorisme d'État
Victimes du terrorisme d'État
Violence politique
Historiographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780415883405 (hardback). - ISBN 0415883407 (hardback). - ISBN 9780203803561
(ebk.). - ISBN 0203803566 (ebk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb427899050
Notice n° :
FRBNF42789905
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