@article{1450398,
      recid = {1450398},
      author = {Barkan, Elazar, and Lang, Ariella,},
      title = {Memory laws and historical justice : the politics of  criminalizing the past /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) :},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {This book examines state efforts to shape the public  memory of past atrocities in the service of nationalist  politics. This political engagement with the duty to  remember, and the question of historical memory and  identity politics, began as an effort to confront denialism  with regard to the Holocaust, but now extends well beyond  that framework, and has become a contentious subject in  many countries. In exploring the politics of memory laws, a  topic that has been overlooked in the largely legal  analyses surrounding this phenomenon, this volume traces  the spread of memory laws from their origins in Western  Europe to their adoption by countries around the world. The  work illustrates how memory laws have become a widespread  tool of governments with a nationalist, majoritarian  outlook. Indeed, as this volume illustrates, in countries  that move from pluralism to majoritarianism, memory laws  serve as a warning a precursor to increasingly repressive,  nationalist inclinations.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1450398},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94914-3},
}