Memory laws and historical justice : the politics of criminalizing the past / Elazar Barkan, Ariella Lang, editors.
Barkan, Elazar, editor.; Lang, Ariella, editor.
2022
HM671
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Title Memory laws and historical justice : the politics of criminalizing the past / Elazar Barkan, Ariella Lang, editors.
ISBN 9783030949143 (electronic bk.)
3030949141 (electronic bk.)
9783030949136
3030949133
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94914-3
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 336 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-94914-3 doi
Call Number HM671
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.3/72
Summary 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.
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Added Author Barkan, Elazar, editor.
Lang, Ariella, editor.
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Chapter 1: Mapping Memory Laws
Chapter 2: French Laws for a Better Past
Chapter 3: (De) Criminalizing the Past: Spains Legal Response to History, Memory, and Historical Memory
Chapter 4: Polish Memory Laws and the Distortion of the History of the Holocaust
Chapter 5: Legislating Historical Memory in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Chapter 6: Holocaust Remembrance, the Cult of the War, and Memory Law in Putins Russia
Chapter 7: Protecting Memory or Criminalizing Dissent? Memory Laws in Lithuania and Latvia
Chapter 8: Criminalizing Denial as a Form of Erasure: The Polish-Ukrainian-Israeli Triangle
Chapter 9: Memory Laws: The Continuation of Yugoslav Wars by Other Means
Chapter 10: Communism v. National Socialism: Legislation as a Tool of Selective Historical Narrative in Hungary
Chapter 11: The Perils and Limits of Memory Laws: The Case of Israels Nakba Law (2011)
Chapter 12: Memory Law and the Duty to Remember the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

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