Clarifying the Past - Understanding Historical Commissions in Conflicted and Divided Societies (Hardcover)

Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understanding the work of such commissions. The theoretical and methodological framework is complemented with an extensive empirical analysis of 27 historical commissions that operated in different social and political contexts from 1990s to the present. The detailed examination of these cases gives a broad perspective into the potential capacities of historical commissions in different settings. Although only sampling the most recent cases, this volume shows how the steady increase of the number of historical commissions indicates that we are not dealing with a marginal phenomenon. The increased recognition of the potential of historical commissions to address the legacies of contested pasts and potential introduction of such commissions to transitional justice, makes this book highly relevant. This book has been written with the objective of deepening and broadening the existing knowledge on state-sponsored historical commissions. Its intended audiences are scholars and practitioners in the fields of historical theory, public history, and historical dialogue, transitional justice, peace and conflict studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Approaches to History
Release date:	September 2022
First published:	2023
Authors:	Cira Palli-Aspero
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-50099-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
LSN:	0-367-50099-X
Barcode:	9780367500993

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