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Stiina Loytomaki - Law & The Politics Of Memory - 9780415657280 - V9780415657280
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Law & The Politics Of Memory

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Description for Law & The Politics Of Memory Hardback. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 167 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.

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. 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.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415657280
SKU
V9780415657280
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Ref
99-1

About Stiina Loytomaki
Stiina Löytömäki is a post-doctoral researcher at the Eric Castren Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki.

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