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An investigation of denunciators for the East German secret police, the Ministry of State Security and the way they have been publicly unveiled.
Sommario
1. Exposing unofficial collaborators; 2. The regime, the secret police, and coming to terms with the past; 3. The case(s) of the litigating spies: public shame, reputation, and respect; 4. Civic interpellations: denunciation as self-disrespect; 5. Stasi agents as responsible agents? Responsibility and respect; 6. An apology for public apologies: a matter of respect?; 7. The politics of reconciliation: offering respect?; 8. Conclusion: thou all-spying knave, of all deeds of shame.
Info autore
Juan Espindola is an assistant professor at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics in Mexico City. He has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Advanced Studies Justitia Amplificata at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt, and at the Institute for Social Research at the National University of Mexico. He has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. His work has appeared in journals such as Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Res Publica, and the German Studies Review, among others. His primary research areas include transitional justice, historical rectification, and education. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan.
Riassunto
A multidisciplinary investigation of denunciators for the East German secret police, the Ministry of State Security and the way in which they have been publicly unveiled. It evaluates the justifications to support or oppose public identifications, how targeted collaborators react to this practice, and whether it achieves its intended purpose.
