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Legal Institutions and Collective Memories

Legal Institutions and Collective Memories

Paperback

Series: Oñati International Law and Society

General Law

ISBN10: 1841133272
ISBN13: 9781841133270
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jul 21 2009
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In recent decades the debate among scholars, lawyers, politicians and others about how societies deal with their past has been constant and intensive. 'Legal Institutions and Collective Memories' situates the processes of transitional justice at the intersection between legal procedures and the production of collective and shared meanings of the past. Building upon the work of Maurice Halbwachs, this collection of essays emphasises the extended role and active involvement of contemporary law and legal institutions in public discourse about the past, and explores their impact on the shape that collective memories take in the course of time. The authors uncover a complex pattern of searching for truth, negotiating the past and cultivating the art of forgetting. Their contributions explore the ambiguous and intricate links between the production of justice, truth and memory.

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