Public memory, public media and the politics of justice

How does the construction, representation and distortion of public memory affect the way we treat other people? How is policy-making influenced by the way the media cover contentious issues such as the ongoing but largely ignored conflict between Russia and Chechnya? Or the claims of indigenous people in Peru to know what really happened during the war against the Shining Path, or SouthAfrica's post-apartheid attempts to build a new nation? Contributors to this book explore the challenges and obstacles to affirming a universal right to memory on the long road to justice for all. INDICE: Foreword.Introduction: Public Media and the Right to Memory: Towards an Encounter with Justice.Rethinking Justice: Between Public Amnesia and Public Memory.Images of Disappearance in Argentina: How Films, Photos, and Television Buttress Memory.East Timor, the United States and Mass Atrocities: Remembering and Forgetting.Justice, Media and Memory: The South African Transition.A Time of Mourning: The Politics of Commemorating the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda.The European Roma: An Unsettled Right to Memory.The Chechen Memory of Deportation: From Recalling a Silenced Past to the Political Use of Public Memory.'Media memories' in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Slavery and Emancipation in the Caribbean: Preserving the Public Memory.Endnote.Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-35406-7
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 31/08/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido