American memories : atrocities and the law /
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2011]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Rose series in sociology.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : how Maurice Halbwachs died and how we remember him
- From law to collective memory : breaking cycles of violence?
- What the literature tells us, and unchartered terrain
- Constructing and remembering the My Lai massacre (with Rajiv Evan Rjan and Lacy Mitchell)
- From Vietnam to Iraq : bridging metaphors, mnemonic struggles, and haunting (with Jeremy Minyard)
- Slobodan Milosevic through lenses of law, diplomacy, and media reporting (with Courtney Faue and Yu-Ju Chien)
- The shape of American memories and a German comparison
- From collective memory to law : theoretical interlude
- How Aamerican memory shapes hate crime law and a German comparison
- Commemorating injustice and implementing hate crime law across jurisdictions in the United States
- Conclusions : atrocities, law and collective memory in America and beyond.