Historical Justice and Memory highlights the global movement for historical justice—acknowledging and redressing historic wrongs—as one of the most signific

This book examines state efforts to shape the public memory of past atrocities in the service of nationalist politics. This political engagement with the 'duty

What is it to do justice to the absent victims of past injustice, given the distance that separates us from them? Grounded in political theory and guided by the

This book makes a valuable contribution to debates on redress for historical injustices by offering case studies from nine countries on five continents. The con

This book is centered around the thesis that the way one deals with historical injustice and the ethics of history is strongly dependent on the way one conceive