Law and the Politics of Memory - 9780415657280

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Law and the Politics of MemoryConfronting the Past\nAuthor(s): Stiina Loytomaki\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415657280, 978-0415657280\nSynopsis\nLaw and the Politics of Memory: Confronting the Past examines laws 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 laws role in belated transitional justice contexts. \n\nThe 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. As such, it explores different legal modalities in processes of working through the past; addressing the implications of regulating history and memory thr.