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050 00 KJV8405 |b.L69 2014
100 1  Löytömäki, Stiina, |eauthor.
245 10 Law and the politics of memory : |bconfronting the past / |cStiina Löytömäki.
264  1 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York, NY : |bRoutledge, |c2014.
300    viii, 162 pages ; |c24 cm
336    text |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |2rdamedia
338    volume |2rdacarrier
500    "GlassHouse Book"
500    Based on author's thesis (doctoral) -- European University Institute, 2010, under title: Committing the Irreparable: Law and dealing with past injustice
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-150) and index.
505 0  Introduction : the recent legalization of colonialism in France -- European memory : memory claims and their Legal "regulation" in the European Union -- France and challenges to French universalism : towards accepting collective responsibility for Vichy crimes -- Trial about discourse : torture during the Algerian war -- Memory laws and the politics of victimhood -- Conclusion : why law?
520    "Law and the Politics of Memory: Confronting the Past examines law's role as a tool of memory politics in the efforts of contemporary societies to work through the traumas of their past. The book examines how and why law has become so central in processes in which the past is constituted as a series of injustices that need to be rectified and can allegedly be repaired. Using the examples of French colonialism and Vichy, as well as addressing the politics of memory surrounding the Holocaust, communism and colonialism, this book provides a critical exploration of law's role in 'belated' transitional justice contexts. As such, it explores different legal modalities in processes of working through the past; addressing the implications of regulating history and memory through legal categories and legislative acts, whilst exploring how trials, restitution cases, and memory laws manage to fulfil such varied expectations as clarifying truth, rendering homage to memory and reconciling societies.Legal scholars, historians and political scientists, especially those working with transitional justice, history and memory politics in particular, will find this book a stimulating exploration of the specificity of law as an instrument and forum of the politics of memory. "-- |cProvided by publisher.
530    Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 War crimes |zFrance |xHistory |y20th century.
650  0 Transitional justice |zFrance.
650  0 Crimes against humanity |zEuropean Union countries.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xLaw and legislation |zFrance.
650  0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zFrance.
651  0 France |xHistory |yGerman occupation, 1940-1945.
651  0 Algeria |xHistory |yRevolution, 1954-1962 |xLaw and legislation.
856 40  |3Electronic version(s) available. |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ushmm/detail.action?docID=1707379 |zHosted by ProQuest
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