| Description |
404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Making sense of political violence in postcolonial Africa / Mahmood Mamdani -- Different kinds of truth : the South African truth and reconciliation commission / Albie Sachs -- Is truth the road to reconciliation? / Avishai Margalit -- Truth and reconciliation are not what we really need / Boris Buden -- The "melancholization" of the witness : the impotence of words, the power of images / Geneviève Morel -- Sagas of victory, memories of defeat? The long afterlife of an Indo-Muslim warrior saint, 1033-2000 / Shahid Amin -- The order of truth and the order of society / Yadh Ben Achour -- A finer balance : an essay on the possibility of reconciliation / Dilip Simeon -- Trauma and truth / Rory Bester -- The persistence of memory : the search for truth, justice, and reconciliation / Urvashi Butalia -- An experiment in international criminal justice : the philosophy, methodology, and working of the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / Gurjot Malhi -- Facts versus truth : the dilemmas of a reluctant member of a truth and reconciliation commission / Vojin Dimitrijević -- Torture, recovery, and truth in Morocco / Susan Slyomovics -- The search for the truth before the courts / María José Guembe -- Transitional justice as liberal narrative |
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Ruti Teitel -- The denial of justice and the loss of the subject / Franz Kaltenbeck -- Archive images : truth or memory? The case of Adolf Eichmann's trial / Eyal Sivan -- It is difficult / Alfredo Jaar -- The logic of reconciliation / Barbara Maria Stafford -- African literature and the Rwandan expedition / Manthia Diawara -- The democratization of memory / Lolle Nauta -- Constructing memorials / Susana Torre -- Between truth and reconciliation : experiments in theater and public culture / Rustom Bharucha |
| Notes |
"This volume contains all contributions to Documenta 11P̲latform 2 ... , a conference held in New Delhi, India Habitat Centre, May 8-12, 2001, accompanied by a film and video program ... May 7-21, 2001"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
World politics -- Congresses.
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World politics -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Art -- Political aspects -- Congresses.
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Truth -- Congresses.
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Justice -- Congresses.
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Reconciliation -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Enwezor, Okwui.
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India Habitat Centre.
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| ISBN |
3775790802 |
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