1st Edition

Historical Justice

Edited By Klaus Neumann Copyright 2016
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

The yearning for historical justice – that is, for the redress of past wrongs – has become one of the defining features of our age. Governments, international bodies and civil society organisations address historical injustices through truth commissions, tribunals, official apologies and other transitional justice measures. Historians produce knowledge of past human rights violations, and... Read more

1. Introduction: Historians and the yearning for historical justice Klaus Neumann

2. The disappearing museum Marivic Wyndham and Peter Read

3. Stumbling blocks in Germany Linde Apel

4. The ethics of nostalgia in post-apartheid South Africa Judith Lütge Coullie

5. Excavating Tempelhof airfield: objects of memory and the politics of absence Maria Theresia Starzmann

6. Jewish Haifa denies its Arab past Gilad Margalit

7. Ghosts and compañeros: haunting stories and the quest for justice around Argentina’s former terror sites Estela Schindel

8. The desire for justice, psychic reparation and the politics of memory in ‘post-conflict’ Northern Ireland Graham Dawson

Biography

Klaus Neumann is a trained historian who works as a research professor at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, in Melbourne, Australia. Recent titles include Across the Seas: Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History (2015) and Historical Justice (ed., with Janna Thompson, 2015). He is currently researching issues of historical justice, the policy response to refugees, asylum seekers and other irregular migrants, and the politics of compassion.