Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts: Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization

ISBN-13: 9781032005072 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

Jelke Boesten; Helen Scanlon

Opis

This book examines the role of post-conflict memorial arts in bringing about gender justice in transitional societies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Feminist Understandings of Memorial Arts and Symbolic Reparations  Part I Sites of Commemoration  2. A Feminist Reading of Sites of Commemoration in Peru  3. Gender, Genocide and Memorialisation in Namibia   4. Gender and Memory: Lessons from the Gukurahundi Massacre in Zimbabwe  5. Memory Politics and the Emergence of a Women’s Sphere to Counter Historical Violence in Korea  6. Calling everything into question: the place of black women in post-1994 South African commemoration  Part II Arts and Symbolic Reparation  7. Genocide & Epistemicide: Symbolic and Restorative Justice Beyond South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission  8. Do Symbolic Reparations in Brazil Help Women to Escape from Silence and to Transform Their Lives?  9. Fabricating Reconciliation in Canada  10. Women Awake: Gender and Commemoration in Contemporary Ireland  11. Touching Pain: The Matrixial Experience of Trauma in Works by Doris Salcedo  Part III Transformative Gender Justice?  12. Memories of Violence Against Women and Girls across borders: Transformative gender justice through the arts among Brazilian women migrants in London  13. Theatre for Transformative Gender Justice: A Comparison of Three Peruvian Plays on Rape during Political Violence  14. "The Past is in the Present and Noone Seems Responsible for Putting it There": Gender, Memory And Mobilisation In Post-Apartheid South Africa