Political Transition: Politics and Cultures

Contents......Page 4
1 Introduction......Page 6
Part I: The Politics of Memory......Page 32
2 Remembering and Forgetting   Zimbabwe   : Towards a Third Transition......Page 34
3 Contested Memories of Repression in the Southern Cone: Commemorations in a Comparative Perspective......Page 58
4  What is Written in Our Hearts   : Memory, Justice and the Healing of Fragmented Communities......Page 75
5 Memory and Forgetting: The Roma Holocaust......Page 95
Part II: Identities......Page 110
6 Continuity and Discontinuity of East German Identity Following the Fall of the Berlin Wall......Page 112
7 Mobilising Memories: Protestant and Unionist Victims   Groups and the Politics of Victimhood in the Irish Pea......Page 132
8   In the Name of the Victims   : The Politics of Compensation in the Work of the South African Truth and Reco......Page 153
9 The Construction of Voice and Identity in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission......Page 170
Part III: Re-making Space......Page 186
10 Remembering Ordinary Agency Under East German State Socialism: Revelations of the Rostock District Record, 1978   89......Page 188
11 Insinuating Spaces: Memories of a Madrid Neighbourhood During the Spanish Transition......Page 203
12 Public Bad, Public Good( s) and Private Realities......Page 217
Part IV: Testimony and Voices......Page 230
13 The Politics of Memory and International Trials for Wartime Rape......Page 232
14 Networks of Memory: Chileans Debate Democracy and the Pinochet Legacy Over an Internet Forum......Page 251
15 Reconciling Reconciliation: A Personal and Public Journey of Testifying Before the South African Trut......Page 267
16 Empire Dies for Irish Freedom: Silence and Amnesia in Anglo- Irish Talks......Page 281
Notes on Contributors......Page 295
Index......Page 299