http://www.archivalplatform.org/resource/entry en director@archivalplatform.org Copyright 2012 2012-05-07T15:42:08+00:00 archivalplatform/resourceshttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/loss_memory_materiality_and_mass_graves_of_the_spanish_civil_war/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/loss_memory_materiality_and_mass_graves_of_the_spanish_civil_war/ Reviewed by David A. Messenger (University of Wyoming) Published on H-Memory (April, 2012) Commissioned by Catherine Baker Spain’s confrontation with its civil war (1936-39), and in particular with the repression and violence against Republicans by the Nationalist side of Francisco Franco, has been one of the more dramatic… Books 2012-05-07T15:42:08+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/rhetoric_remembranc/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/rhetoric_remembranc/ This volume offers a multifaceted investigation of intersections among visual and memorial forms in modern art, politics, and society. The question of the relationships among images and memory is particularly relevant to contemporary society, at a time when visually-based technologies are increasingly employed in both grand and modest efforts to… Books 2012-05-07T12:07:34+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/democratic_narrative_history_and_memory/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/democratic_narrative_history_and_memory/ Social justice and the shaping of public memory The essays in this volume explore the complex relationships among events, memory, and portrayal of those events and the deepest questions of human experience, all viewed through a range of disciplinary lenses but grouped into three sections, each with… Books 2012-05-07T12:01:49+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/memory_and_representation/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/memory_and_representation/ Why do certain places and not others symbolically capture the past and freeze time? Likewise, why does the process of memory, as a fluid and changing activity, seem to prevent its own solidification? Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe reflects not only on the persistence of the past as a… Books 2012-05-07T11:53:24+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/rwandas_gacaca_courts/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/rwandas_gacaca_courts/ A fresh critique of Rwanda’s Gacaca courts, drawing on extensive observations of the trial proceedings and empirical research Provides a full analysis of the workings of the Gacaca courts, evaluating their merits as well as the criticisms levelled at them Critically examines the contribution the courts have made… Books 2012-05-07T11:45:18+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/remembrance_ad_reconciliation/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/remembrance_ad_reconciliation/ From the publisher, “Remembrance and reconciliation envision intentional pathways out of conflict and toward peace. Remembrance retraces the junctures in the past that determined what a nation has become. Probing accountability for past actions establishes accountability for what continues to happen. Revisiting what a nation has done brings the perspectives… Books 2012-05-07T11:25:12+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/memory_of_silence/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/memory_of_silence/ Memory of Silence is an edited one-volume version of the Guatemalan Truth Commission report, presenting the definitive account of one of the most brutal cases of government repression in the Western Hemisphere, a thirty-four year conflict forged by the Cold War, strongly influenced by the United States’ foreign policy, and… Books 2012-03-30T13:24:50+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/reconciliation_civil_society_and_the_politics_of_memory_transnational_initi/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/reconciliation_civil_society_and_the_politics_of_memory_transnational_initi/ How did civil society function as a locus for reconciliation initiatives in 20th-century Europe? The essays in this volume challenge the conventional understanding of reconciliation as a benign state-driven process. They explore how a range of civil society actors – from Turkish intellectuals apologizing for the Armenian Genocide to religious… Books 2012-03-30T13:18:45+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/making_slavery_visible_in_public_places/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/making_slavery_visible_in_public_places/ The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent, organized groups, governments, non-governmental organizations… Books 2012-03-30T10:25:32+00:00 http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/museums_in_nigeria_and_other_lands/ http://www.archivalplatform.org/resources/entry/museums_in_nigeria_and_other_lands/ Museums in Nigeria…and Other Lands is the first attempt by any Nigerian to provide a panoramic picture of museums in his country as well as what obtains elsewhere. After traversing Nigeria severally for first-hand knowledge of the situation of local museums and monuments, the author; Maurice Archibong, also visited similar… Books 2012-03-30T10:00:30+00:00