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Bevernage Barber

History, memory, and state-sponsored violence : Time and justice - London Routledge 2012 - 250p xi

Table of contents
1. Introduction;
Part I 2. '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;
Part II 5. 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

ISBN: 9780415822985

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Terrorism - Government Policy2. Victims - Historiography

Dewey Class. No.: 303.600000 / BEV