Empires of Remorse: Narrative, Postcolonialism and Apologies for Colonial Atrocity

ISBN-13: 9780815371038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 191 str.

Tom Bentley

Opis

Analysing apologies from Germany, Belgium, Britain and Italy, this book explores the shifting ways in which these countries represent their colonial pasts and investigates what this reveals about contemporary international politics, particularly relations between (former) coloniser and colonised.

Spis treści

1 Introduction  2 On apology  3 Collective memory, postcolonialism and the (in)glorious past  4 The German apology for the Herero genocide  5 The Belgian apology for involvement in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba  6 The British apology for the Bloody Sunday  7 The Italian apology for colonialism in Libya  8 Conclusion

O autorze

Tom Bentley is Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen.