This book offers a uniquely broad collection of theoretical and case-based deep dives into controversies over memory, healing, and rebuilding in post-atrocity settings.
Chunhui Peng and Henry C. Theriault bring together an international team of established and emerging scholars to offer new theoretical frameworks for understanding how reparative action has functioned in the past as well as models for approaching new contexts. These contributions are complemented by a broad geographical range of case-studies covering aftermaths of mass violence in Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, South Africa, Guatemala, and Crimea, as well as the Armenian genocide. Along the way, the book engages issues of memory and denial, public education, material impacts, psychological trauma, and societal deformation and rehabilitation, all while considering micro-, macro-, and meso-level impacts of mass violence and resulting social and political dynamics of longstanding impediments to reconciliation and the restoration of victim communities.
The end result is a series of new connections between culture and memory to issues of transition, reconciliation, and justice after atrocity.
1. Introduction
Section I. Philosophical Groundwork
2. Time for Justice: Understanding the Temporal Dimensions of Genocide and Its Aftermath as Process
Henry Theriault, Worcester State University, USA
Section II. Memory Traces: Remembering Traumatic Events
3. Making Sense of Destruction, Displacement, and Lost Legacy: Transmission and Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide and Lost Armenian Homeland in Contemporary Turkey and Armenia
Diana Yayloyan, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
4. Getting It Wrong While Making Things Right: Post-Genocide Justice and the Work of Repair in Bangladesh, 1971-2007
Adam Muller, University of Manitoba, Canada
5. Seeking Justice after the Chinese Cultural Revolution: From Public Trials to Literati's Personal Memories
Chunhui Peng, San Jose State University, USA
6. Depicting Perpetrators of Large-Scale Violence in Museums: Opportunities for Understanding and Preventing Mass Atrocities
Alexandra Drakakis, Museum Association of New York, USA
Madeleine Rosenberg, Chief Public Historian for the New Jersey Historical Commission, USA
Section III. Transitional Justice after Mass Violence
7. Justice After Atrocity: The ‘Local’ View from Cambodia
Laura McGrew, Co-founder of Aftermath of War and Violence Consortium, Cambodia
8. Truth in the Shadow of Mass Violence: An Examination of the South African and Grenada Truth Commissions
Jermaine O. McCalpin, New Jersey City University, USA
9. Guatemala and the Contours of Justice after Genocide
Lina Laurinaviciute-Aksu, Chief Specialist, National Courts Administration of the Republic of Lithuania
Regina Menachery Paulose, Co-Chair, International Refugee Law Section, American Bar Association; Chair, World Peace Law Section, Washington State Bar, USA
Ronald Gordon Rogo, NGO Consultant and Lecturer, Kenyatta University, Kenya
10. Historical Genocide: Seeking an Alternative Model of Justice
Michael Carter, Independent scholar, USA
11. Ethnic Discrimination by the Occupying Power and Response by the Territorial State: How Ukraine Protects Crimean Tatars
Oleksii Plotnikov, Human Rights Advocate, Ukraine
12. Conclusion
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