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Subject(s)

• Truth commissions—Case studies [Browse]
• History—Methodology—Case studies [Browse]
• Historiography—Political aspects—Case studies [Browse]

Series

Routledge approaches to history [More in this series]

Summary note

"Clarifying the Past provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understand the work of such commissions. The theoretical and methodological framework is complemented with an extensive empirical analysis of twenty-seven historical commissions that operated in different social and political contexts from 1990s to the present. The detailed examination of these cases gives a broad perspective in to the potential capacities of historical commissions in different settings. Although only sampling the most recent cases, this volume shows how the steady increase of the number of historical commissions indicates that we are not dealing with a marginal phenomenon. The increased recognition of the potential of historical commissions to address the legacies of contested pasts and potential introduction of such commissions to the transitional justice, makes this book highly relevant. This book has been written with the objective to deepen and broaden the existing knowledge on state-sponsored historical commissions. Its intended audiences are scholars and practitioners in the field historical theory, public history, and historical dialogue, transitional justice, peace and conflict studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The politics of the past and the production of historical knowledge
• Historical commissions : a conceptual framework
• Institutionalisation of historical commissions
• Historical commissions' methods of practice
• Introduction to the empirical analysis
• Diplomatic historical commissions
• Post-totalitarian historical commissions
• (Post)conflict historical commissions
• Post-colonial historical commissions
• The suitability of the historical method and contribution of the cases to the historical commissions' conceptual framework
• Placing historical commissions within the transitional justice paradigm.

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ISBN

• 9780367500993 (hardcover)
• 036750099X (hardcover)
• 9780367501020 (paperback)
• 0367501023 (paperback)

LCCN

2022016999

OCLC

1333438942

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