Beschrijving
Taking Northern Ireland as its primary case study, this book applies the growing literature in memory studies to the primary question of transitional justice: How shall societies and individuals reckon with a traumatic past? This book analyses how the bodies of the dead, injured, and traumatised are written into – or out of – transitional justice.
Taking Northern Ireland as its primary case study, this book applies the burgeoning literature in memory studies to the primary question of transitional justice: how shall societies and individuals reckon with a traumatic past? Joseph Robinson argues that without understanding how memory shapes, moulds, and frames narratives of the past in the minds of communities and individuals, theorists and practitioners may not be able to fully appreciate the complex, emotive realities of transitional political landscapes. Drawing on interviews with what the author terms \
