Peace and the politics of memory

This book explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. Situating the book in the literature of critical Peace Research and Memory Studies, the authors introduce the idea that the quality of peace is affected by the extent to which me...

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description This book explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. Situating the book in the literature of critical Peace Research and Memory Studies, the authors introduce the idea that the quality of peace is affected by the extent to which memories are entangled. It advances and employs an original theoretical framework to study mnemonic formations. Mnemonic formations are societally salient topics regarding a particular facet of a conflict-affected society’s memoryscape that bring memory and politics together. We investigate mnemonic formations through the interplay between sites, agency, narratives and events. Acknowledging the entanglement of memory in mnemonic formations, this book renders visible the fluidity of memory-making and the political frictions between competing memories. It provides rich empirical case studies that analyse and compare mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia. Through this comparative investigation the book assesses how and why memory politics contributes to the construction of a just peace or the perpetuation of conflict, or nuances in between. This analysis shows that three elements of memory politics play a key role in relation to the quality of peace: inclusivity, pluralism and dignity. Suggesting that memory politics affect the quality of peace, the book concludes that when the mnemonic formation consists of multiple, intersectional entanglements and overlaps, there is more room for just peace.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1518682025-07-21T15:44:38Z Peace and the politics of memory Mannergren, Johanna Björkdahl, Annika Buckley-Zistel, Susanne Kappler, Stefanie Williams, Timothy memory politics mnemonic formations quality of peace just peace Cyprus Bosnia and Herzegovina Rwanda South Africa Cambodia thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTU Peace studies and conflict resolution thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTX Violence, intolerance and persecution in history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPB Comparative politics thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTU Peace studies and conflict resolution thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTX Violence, intolerance and persecution in history This book explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. Situating the book in the literature of critical Peace Research and Memory Studies, the authors introduce the idea that the quality of peace is affected by the extent to which memories are entangled. It advances and employs an original theoretical framework to study mnemonic formations. Mnemonic formations are societally salient topics regarding a particular facet of a conflict-affected society’s memoryscape that bring memory and politics together. We investigate mnemonic formations through the interplay between sites, agency, narratives and events. Acknowledging the entanglement of memory in mnemonic formations, this book renders visible the fluidity of memory-making and the political frictions between competing memories. It provides rich empirical case studies that analyse and compare mnemonic formations in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda, South Africa and Cambodia. Through this comparative investigation the book assesses how and why memory politics contributes to the construction of a just peace or the perpetuation of conflict, or nuances in between. This analysis shows that three elements of memory politics play a key role in relation to the quality of peace: inclusivity, pluralism and dignity. Suggesting that memory politics affect the quality of peace, the book concludes that when the mnemonic formation consists of multiple, intersectional entanglements and overlaps, there is more room for just peace. 2025-02-16T20:07:12Z 2025-02-16T20:07:12Z 2025-02-12T11:21:04Z 2024 book ONIX_20250212_9781526178329_10 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98525 9781526178329 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151868 eng New Approaches to Conflict Analysis open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98525/1/9781526178329.pdf Manchester University Press 10.7765/9781526178329 10.7765/9781526178329 bcb4ab08-c525-4e6c-88e5-a0cf0a175533 5bc0c329-b4f2-46e3-aa10-ca50947479e5 aea7e94f-b283-408c-8097-1dd94d8bd430 d0e1cd83-8ecb-44a2-bba8-187a50881e77 9781526178329 256 Manchester [...] [...] Lund University Medical Faculty Foundation 10.13039/501100004817 open access
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Peace and the politics of memory
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mnemonic formations
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just peace
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rwanda
South Africa
Cambodia
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topic_facet memory politics
mnemonic formations
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Rwanda
South Africa
Cambodia
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