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2010/2 The Right To Memory Print E-mail

The right to memory is a matter of justice. In all communities and societies, the choice of what is recorded in the public memory and the way it is represented is not neutral but happens in accord with predetermined perceptions and policies. This politics of remembering or forgetting essentially constitutes a struggle for power. Wherever justice is absent, wherever a politics of enforced amnesia reigns, it falls to civil society organisations to be the spokespersons of history and public memory, even if that means being in conflict with the particularities of deep trauma. In such cases, the right to memory is in symbiosis with the right to justice.

Towards a right to memory, by Philip Lee

Hacia un derecho a la memoria, por Philip Lee [traducido por Rolando Pérez]

Gender and the right to memory, by Anna Reading

Media, memory and emergence, by Andrew Hoskins

Memory and forgetting, by Judith Vidal-Hall

Memorias que duelen, cuestionan, y provocan esperanza, por Germán Vargas

La porfiada memoria, por Marcia Scantlebury

Rwanda’s paradox of remembering and suffering, by Jean-Pierre Karegeye

Memories of violence in Mozambique, by Victor Igreja

Spain and the memory that will not die, by Julius Purcell

Helping Dominicans recover their memory, by Gabrielle Lorne

A genocide denied, by Geoffrey Robertson, QC

Atom Egoyan on language and memory, by Ron Burnett

‘His name was Ned’: Memories of cinema and segregation, by James M. Wall

Advocating for peace, by Jan Servaes

Berlinale 2010 focuses on family and freedom, by Philip Lee



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