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Informationen zum Autor Onur Bakiner Klappentext Onur Bakiner teaches political science at Seattle University. Zusammenfassung Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting political! judicial! and social change. He argues that even when commissions produce modest change as a result of political constraints! they open new avenues for human rights activism and transform public discourses on memory! truth! justice! and reconciliation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART I. TRUTH, POWER, AND LEGITIMATION IN TRUTH COMMISSION PROCESSES Chapter 1. Definition and Conceptual History of Truth Commissions: What Are They? What Have They Become? Chapter 2. Speaking Truth to Power? The Politics of Truth Commissions Chapter 3. One Truth Among Others? Truth Commissions' Struggle for Truth and Memory PART II. ZOOMING IN: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 4. Truth Commission Impact: An Assessment of How Commissions Influence Politics and Society Chapter 5. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (I): Chile and Peru Chapter 6. Explaining Variation in Truth Commission Impact (II): Evidence from Thirteen Countries Chapter 7. Comparing Truth Commissions' Memory Narratives: Chile and Peru PART III. ZOOMING OUT: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST THROUGH TRUTH COMMISSIONS Chapter 8. Nation and (Its New) Narration: A Critical Reading of Truth Commissions Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
