The Politics of Acknowledgement

The Politics of Acknowledgement
Author: Joanna R. Quinn
Publisher: UBC Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0774859598

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Human rights violations leave deep scars on people, societies, and nations. Since the early 1990s, international rights groups have argued that resolving the violence of the past through instruments of transitional justice such as truth commissions is a necessary condition for a peaceful future. But how can nations ensure that these tribunals are the best path to reconciliation? The Politics of Acknowledgement develops a theoretical framework of acknowledgement with which to evaluate truth commissions. Rather than applying this framework to successful tribunals, Joanna Quinn uses it to analyze the difficulties encountered and the ultimate failure of two poorly understood truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. The failure of these commissions reveals that if reconciliation is to be achieved, acknowledgement of past violence and harm – by both victims and perpetrators – must come before goals such as forgiveness, social trust, civic engagement, and social cohesion.

Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide

Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide
Author: Vahagn Avedian
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429845154

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Is the Armenian Genocide a strictly historical matter? If that is the case, why is it still a topical issue, capable of causing diplomatic rows and heated debates? The short answer would be that the century old Armenian Genocide is much more than a historical question. It emerged as a political dilemma on the international arena at the San Stefano peace conference in 1878 and has remained as such into our days. The disparity between knowledge and acknowledgement, mainly ascribable to Turkey’s official denial of the genocide, has only heightened the politicization of the Armenian question. Thus, the memories of the WWI era refuse to be relegated to the pages of history but are rather perceived as a vivid presence. This is the result of the perpetual process of politics of memory. The politics of memory is an intricate and interdisciplinary negotiation, engaging many different actors in the society who have access to a wide range of resources and measures in order to achieve their goals. By following the Armenian question during the past century up to its Centennial Commemoration in 2015, this study aims to explain why and how the politics of memory of the Armenian Genocide has kept it as a topical issue in our days.

Taking Wrongs Seriously

Taking Wrongs Seriously
Author: Trudy Govier
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2006
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

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Recognition, Conflict and the Problem of Global Ethical Community

Recognition, Conflict and the Problem of Global Ethical Community
Author: Shannon Brincat
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317519132

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Recognition is a fundamental aspect of all social interactions; between individuals, groups, local communities and sovereign states. Recognition refers to those sociological processes whereby two or more entities (such as states), groups (such as ethnic or cultural communities) or individuals interact with one another and come to understand themselves, and the other, as mutually free individuals: as social agents whose identities, interests and outlooks are equally bound together. Without the foundational act of recognition, relations can become unequal and antagonistic, leading to social pathologies, denigration and even open conflict. This volume brings together leading international scholars of recognition theory in world politics to discuss the potential for recognition to pacify relations between states, groups and individuals and to develop recognition processes in the global community. It examines the implications of recognition theory in helping to understand the problem of conflict and the possibilities for forging a form of global ethical community. This book was published as a special issue of Global Discourse.

Victimhood and Acknowledgement

Victimhood and Acknowledgement
Author: Petra Terhoeven
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110581507

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The history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators, their motives and actions. The history of their victims has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence, and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators, on the one hand, and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public, on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering, their agency, their helplessness, or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society, politics and media? If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. Not least, they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence, a question highly relevant up to the present day.

Political Judgement

Political Judgement
Author: Ronald Beiner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135026823

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Originally published in 1983. One of the basic capacities of man as a political being is his faculty of judgement. Yet for all the books on concepts like freedom, equality and authority, surprisingly little attention has been given to this topic in the tradition of Western political thought. What is the nature of political judgement? What endows us, as human beings, with the ability to make reasonable judgements about human affairs and to judge the common world we share with others? By what means to we secure validity for our judgements? What are the underlying conditions of this human capacity, and what implications does it have the understanding of politics? These questions, central as they are to any reflection on politics have rarely been addressed in a systematic way. This book examines Kant’s concept of taste and Aristotle’s concept of prudence, as well as recent works of political philosophy by Arendt, Gadamer and Habermas, all crucially influenced by Kant and Aristotle.

Cash, Color, and Colonialism

Cash, Color, and Colonialism
Author: Renee Ann Cramer
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2005
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780806136714

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Within the context of U.S.-Indian law, federal acknowledgment establishes a trust relationship between an Indian tribe and the U.S. government. Some tribes, however, have not been federally acknowledged, or, in more common language, “recognized.” In Cash, Color, and Colonialism, Reneé Ann Cramer offers a comprehensive analysis of the federal acknowledgment process, placing it in historical, legal, and social context.

American Mourning

American Mourning
Author: Simon Stow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108211135

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How does the way in which a democratic polity mourn its losses shape its political outcomes? How might it shape those outcomes? American Mourning: Tragedy, Democracy, Resilience answers these questions with a critical study of American public mourning. Employing mourning as a lens through which to view the shortcomings of American democracy, it offers an argument for a tragic, complex, and critical mode of mourning that it contrasts with the nationalist, romantic, and nostalgic responses to loss that currently dominate and damage the polity. Offering new readings of key texts in Ancient political thought and American political history, it engages debates central to contemporary democratic theory concerned with agonism, acknowledgment, hope, humanism, patriotism, and political resilience. The book outlines new ways of thinking about and responding to terrorism, racial conflict, and the problems of democratic military return.

Against Recognition

Against Recognition
Author: Lois McNay
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2008-02-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745629326

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In this book, Lois McNay argues that the insights of the recognition theorists are undercut by their reliance on an inadequate account of power.