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Memory from the Margins - Ethiopia's Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational, national and local forces as they converge in the story of the creation and continued life of one modest museum in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa-the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum. It is a study from multiple margins: neither the case of Ethiopia nor memorialization is central to transitional justice discourse, and within Ethiopia, the history of the Red Terror is sidelined in contemporary politics. From these nested margins, traumatic memory emerges as an ambiguous social and political force. The contributions, meaning and limitations of memory emerge at the point of discrete interactions between memory advocates, survivor-docents and visitors. Memory from the margins is revealed as powerful for how it disrupts, not builds, new forms of community. 

List of contents

1. Memory from the Margins.- 2. Revolution and Red Terror, 1974 - 1978.- 3. Transitional Influences, 1991 - 2005.- 4. The Shape of Memory, 2003 - 2010.- 5. The Tour as Traumatic Performance, 2010 - present.- 6. Conclusion: On Memory and Future Transitions.

About the author










Bridget Conley is Research Director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, USA. She was previously Research Director for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience. 

Product details

Authors Bridget Conley
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.06.2020
 
EAN 9783030134976
ISBN 978-3-0-3013497-6
No. of pages 244
Dimensions 149 mm x 213 mm x 14 mm
Weight 339 g
Illustrations XI, 244 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color.
Series Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science

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