Citation

Stockwell J. Int. Rev. Red Cross (1999) 2019; 101(910): 97-124.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, International Committee of the Red Cross, Publisher Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S181638311900050X

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

While the dominant human rights discourse on transitional justice constitutes a mix of reinforcing aims that seek to "make peace with" a violent past, this article complicates this notion by exploring how affective memories can prevent individuals from envisioning a future for themselves in which their individual and their nation's past is safely left behind. In the context of ongoing debates over whether to remember or forget a country's traumatic past, the article will show how affective memories of violence and disappearance prevail and disrupt the reconciliation paradigm, and need to be taken into account in transitional justice processes.

Language: en

Keywords

affect; Argentina; memory; reconciliation; Sri Lanka; transitional justice