scholarly journals Picturing truth and reconciliation

Temida ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-76
Author(s):  
Marian Liebmann
Keyword(s):  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Vulnerable Group ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

This is an account of the workshop run at the conference Truth and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia: Where are we now and where to go? Even in such a short workshop, it seemed that it was possible to share difficult areas of the past, and move on to looking at hopes for the future. The use of art materials seemed to facilitate the expression of aspects difficult to put into words. There seems to be potential for extending this method. Yet it is not without its dangers, if used with a vulnerable group of people, or in an insecure situation, or in an insensitive way. It could open doors which are difficult to shut again. The ability of art to bring up memories and emotions is both its strength and its risk.

scholarly journals Association joint action for truth and reconciliation: Activities in 2006 and plans for the future

Temida ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic ◽  
Danijela Bjelic
Keyword(s):  
Joint Action ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Mutual Support ◽  
Third Way ◽  
The Public ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Visibility

In this paper the detailed overview of 2006 activities of Association Joint action FOR truth and reconciliation, as well as main directions of its expected actions in 2007, is given. During 2006 the activities of the Association were primarily oriented toward its own development, including defining aims and basic values, as well as empowerment and mutual support of its members. The second part of activities was oriented to the public promotion of the idea of "third way" and the Association itself. Activities in 2006 included: activities oriented toward development of Association, development of resource center and research, activities in direction of increasing social visibility of Association, as well as activities oriented toward development of cooperation and promotion of "third way" in other parts of the former Yugoslavia. .

Towards a Narrative Pachacutic

Andean Truths ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 107-133
Author(s):  
Anne Lambright
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Reconciliation Process ◽  
Andean Culture

This chapter studies Rosa Cuchillo (1997), by indigenous-mestizo writer, Oscar Colchado Lucio. Narrated by three indigenous characters, the novel portrays both the Shining Path’s and the state’s inability to understand indigenous Andean culture, while modeling an Andean-driven truth and reconciliation process. The novel relies almost exclusively on Andean characters who call upon autochthonous discourse, knowledge, and spirituality to create an Andean historical, political and affective archive that contrasts with that created and disseminated through other, official processes. In recounting the past and imagining the future, Rosa Cuchillo becomes a model of “intercultural communication” and “epistemological decolonization” (Quijano), and by channeling the therapeutic processing of the conflict through Andean modes of interpretation, it suggests one outcome could be a cultural, if not political, Pachacutec—an Andean revolution.

Listening to thunder in the silence on Tiananmen: Politics and ethics of the memory of the June Fourth Movement

2020 ◽  
pp. 0920203X2095656
Author(s):  
Bin Xu
Keyword(s):  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fourth Movement ◽  
The Future ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Repressive Regime ◽  
Reconciliation Process

‘Forgetting’ has been widely used in academic and public discourses of the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Incident. The term, however, is conceptually unclear, empirically ineffective, and ethically problematic. Conceptually, it relies on a problematic assumption that silence means forgetting. Empirically, it lumps together different states of memory: ‘don’t remember, don’t talk about, don’t know, and don’t care.’ Ethically, it allows a broad, unjust moral accusation of those who remember but remain silent for various reasons. I argue that ‘silence’ provides greater conceptual precision, more analytical subtlety, and less ethical liability. Silence does not mean forgetting. Nor does it always mean the complete absence of sound. Rather, it refers to the absence of certain discourses about the past. I propose a perspective based on different forms of silence – ‘silencing, silenced, and silent’ – and illustrate it in an analysis of the memory of Tiananmen. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the analysis shows that the Chinese state initially intended to create a ‘covert silence’ – forcing people to remember rather than forget the official stories and silencing other narratives – and then an ‘overt silence’ in which all mention of the event was absent. Even underneath overt silence, however, are various experiences with ambiguities and nuances. The term silence also recognizes individuals’ ethical-political dilemmas under a repressive regime and aims to provide a language for an equal and inclusive truth-and-reconciliation process in the future.

YUGONOSTALGIA: RESTORATIVE AND REFLECTIVE NOSTALGIA IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Lindstrom
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Fixed Time ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multi Media

Drawing on Svetlana Boym's distinction between "restorative" and "reflective" nostalgia, the essay maps two broad, and often overlapping, ideal types of Yugonostalgia expressed in and through contemporary former Yugoslav film, popular music, and multi-media. The first expresses reeonstructive longing for an essential Yugoslav past; the second offers self-consciously ambivalent and critical frames in indulging fantasies of this past. What different forms of Yugonostalgia share in common is challenging symbolic geographies of disunity that have dominated political discourse in former Yugoslavia for the last two decades. The two types can be differenciated by their stance toward the presentpast and the future: while both of them are based on fantasies of the past, thc "restorative" Yugonostalgic looks backward towards a seemingly fixed time and space while "reflective" nostalgic restlessly grapples with the dislocation so palpable in the former Yugoslavia to imagine alternative futures.

scholarly journals Association joint action for truth and reconciliation: Coordination of civil society initiatives and increasing of social visibility of third way toward facing the past

Temida ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic ◽  
Natasa Hanak
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Joint Action ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Visibility

In this paper the activities and results of the work within Victimology Society of Serbia project "From remembering the past toward positive future" during 2005 are presented. In addition, plans for the future are presented as well. Special attention is given to the establishment of Association Joint action for truth and reconciliation as well as to the promotion of Third way toward facing the past.

scholarly journals Research about the most adequate forms of remembering the past and ways of establishing trust in the former Yugoslavia

Temida ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Nikola Petrovic
Keyword(s):  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Member States ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past

The results of three action studies conducted by the Victimiology Society of Serbia with the aim to raise awareness of Serbian citizens about truth and reconciliation, as well as to examine the attitudes of citizens about the best forms of remembering the past and ways of establishing trust between the different political and ideological groups in Serbia and between the citizens of the member states of the former Yugoslavia, will be presented in this paper. The research was carried out in the period 2002-2010. The first analysis was done on the questionnaires gathered in the period 2002-2004, the second for the period 2004-2009 and the third research was conducted in 2010. A total of 325 filled questionnaires were collected and 3031 informational brochures were handed out. Awareness of the citizens about this issue was raised, and a large number of useful suggestions about the best forms of remembering the past and ways of regaining trust were gathered.

YUGONOSTALGIA: RESTORATIVE AND REFLECTIVE NOSTALGIA IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICOLE LINDSTROM
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Fixed Time ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multi Media

Abstract: Drawing on Svetlana Boym's distinction between "restorative" and "reflective" nostalgia, the essay maps two broad, and often overlapping, ideal types of Yugonostalgia expressed in and through contemporary former Yugoslav film, popular music, and multi-media. The first expresses reconstructive longing for an essential Yugoslav past; the second offers self-consciously ambivalent and critical frames in indulging fantasies of this past. What different forms of Yugonostalgia share in common is challenging symbolic geographies of disunity that have dominated political discourse in former Yugoslavia for the last two decades. The two types can be differentiated by their stance toward the presentpast and the future: while both of them are based on fantasies of the past, the "restorative" Yugonostalgic looks backward towards a seemingly fixed time and space while "reflective" nostalgic restlessly grapples with the dislocation so palpable in the former Yugoslavia to imagine alternative futures.

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