Localising Memory in Transitional Justice

<p>This collection adds to the critical transitional justice scholarship that calls for “transitional justice from below” and that makes visible the complex and oftentimes troubled entanglements between justice endeavours locality and memory-making. Broadening this perspective it explores informal memory practices across various contexts with a focus on their individual and collective dynamics and their intersections reaching also beyond a conceptualisation of memory as mere symbolic reparation and politics of memory.</p><p>It seeks to highlight the hidden unwritten and multifaceted in today’s memory boom by focusing on the memorialisation practices of communities activists families and survivors. Organising its analytical focal point around the localisation of memory it offers valuable and new insights on how and under what conditions localised memory practices may contribute to recognition and social transformation as well as how they may at best be inclusive or exclusive of dynamic and diverse memories.</p><p>Drawing on inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches this book brings an in-depth and nuanced understanding of local memory practices and the dynamics attached to these in transitional justice contexts. It will be of much interest to students and scholars of memory and genocide studies peace and conflict studies transitional justice sociology and anthropology.</p>