Transitional Justice and the Politics of Inscription: Memory, Space and Narrative in Northern Ireland...

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Joseph Robinson

Transitional Justice and the Politics of Inscription

Memory, Space and Narrative in Northern Ireland

Joseph Robinson

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Routledge
08 January 2019

Society & culture: general; Crime & criminology; Criminology: legal aspects; International criminal law; Social law

Series: 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 ""memory curators,"" coupled with a robust analysis of secondary literature from a range of transitional cases, the book analyses how the bodies of the dead, the injured, and the traumatised are written into - or written out of - transitional justice. The author argues that scholars cannot appreciate the dynamism of transitional memory-space unless they first engage with the often silenced or marginalised voices whose memories remain trapped behind the antagonistic politics of fear and division. Ultimately challenging the imperative of national reconciliation, the author argues for a politics of public memory that incubates at multiple nodes of social production and can facilitate a vibrant, democratic debate over the ways in which a traumatic past can or should be remembered."

By: Joseph Robinson
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9780367191740
ISBN 10: 0367191741
Series: Transitional Justice
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 08 January 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: ‘The Voice of Sanity is Getting Hoarse:’ Historical Narratives in Northern Ireland 1. Where, Why, & How ‘Will We Remember Them?:’ The Bloomfield Report Revisited 2. Social Memory 3. State of Exception 4. Hierarchy of Victims 5. Fugitive Roads & Social Hauntings 6. The Politics of Inscription 7. It Should Never be Lost 8. We are All, Potentially, Homines Sacri

Joseph S. Robinson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland. He is an Irish Research Council Fellow and a Research Fellow at the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation in Glencree, County Wicklow, Ireland. The research and first drafts of this book were written when he was a Researcher with The Junction, a community relations and peacebuilding non-profit located in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland.