Transitional Justice: History-Telling, Collective Memory and the Victim-Witness

Brants, Chrisje; Klep, Katrien

doi:10.4119/unibi/ijcv.195

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Memory, counter-memory and resistance: notes on the ‘Greek Debt Truth Commission’

Bowsher¹

2019

The Sociology of Debt

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This chapter seeks to understand the social and political significance of the Greek Truth Committee on the Public Debt (TCPD), a process set up by SYRIZA in June 2015 to contest the dominant ‘common sense’ of Greece’s sovereign debt. Affirming its value, this chapter analyses the TCPD as an important, strategic response to post-crash neoliberalism. Lazzarato has argued that contemporary neoliberalism relies on a mnemotechnics of debt, a project of memory, which does the crucial work of legitimising and sustaining recourse to austerity policies by making citizens ‘guilty’ and thus deserving of them. Set against neoliberalism’s mnemotechnics, I examine the TCPD as a memory-making project, showing how it produced a counter-memory of the debt which demonstrated the innocence of Greek citizens and thus freed them from guilt. With its capacity to reverse the common sense of debt, I conclude that the TCPD’s memory-making strategy remains an important precedent for resisting post-crash neoliberalism.

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Memory, counter-memory and resistance: notes on the ‘Greek Debt Truth Commission’

Bowsher¹

2019

The Sociology of Debt

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Remembering the Past in Diasporic Spaces: Kurdish Reflections on Genocide Memorialization for Anfal

Toivanen

Başer

2019

Genocide Studies International

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Diasporas engage in a variety of practices and activities to commemorate past massacres and genocides that might have led to the formation of the diaspora in the first place. In this process, certain massacres can be constructed as the "chosen trauma" and consequently become a central element in commemoration practices and identity formation. In this paper, we discuss genocide memorialization in the context of the Iraqi Kurdish diaspora in Europe. We focus specifically on genocide memorialization of the Anfal Campaign (1986-1989) that was orchestrated by Saddam Hussein's regime against the Kurdish population in Northern Iraq. We examine how collective remembering for Anfal takes place in the diasporic space, what diasporic articulations and representations of Anfal as the chosen trauma are produced in commemoration practices and how these genocide memorialization processes differ from those in the homeland context. How do Kurdish diaspora communities in Europe commemorate Anfal? How do diaspora narratives relate to collective memory and identity? What spatial and generational dynamics are at play in these processes?

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Introduction: Transitions from Violence. Analysing the Effects of Transitional Justice

Bonacker

Buckley-Zistel

2013

International Journal of Conflict and Violence (IJCV)

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Transitional Justice: History-Telling, Collective Memory and the Victim-Witness

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Memory, counter-memory and resistance: notes on the ‘Greek Debt Truth Commission’

Memory, counter-memory and resistance: notes on the ‘Greek Debt Truth Commission’

Remembering the Past in Diasporic Spaces: Kurdish Reflections on Genocide Memorialization for Anfal

Introduction: Transitions from Violence. Analysing the Effects of Transitional Justice

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