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Transitional Justice and the Politics of Inscription: Memory, Space and Narrative in Northern Ireland book cover

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Transitional Justice and the Politics of Inscription Memory, Space and Narrative in Northern Ireland

By Joseph Robinson Copyright 2018
262 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Taking Northern Ireland as its primary case study, this book applies the burgeoning literature in memory studies to the primary question of transitional justice: how shall societies and individuals reckon with a traumatic past? Joseph Robinson argues that without understanding how memory shapes, moulds, and frames narratives of the past in the minds of communities and individuals, theorists and... Read more

Introduction: ‘The Voice of Sanity is Getting Hoarse:’ Historical Narratives in Northern Ireland

1. Where, Why, & How ‘Will We Remember Them?:’ The Bloomfield Report Revisited

2. Social Memory

3. State of Exception

4. Hierarchy of Victims

5. Fugitive Roads & Social Hauntings

6. The Politics of Inscription

7. It Should Never be Lost

8. We are All, Potentially, Homines Sacri

Biography

Joseph S. Robinson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. He is an Irish Research Council Fellow and a Research Fellow at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland. The research and first drafts of this book were written when he was a Researcher with The Junction, a community relations and peacebuilding non-profit located in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland.

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