Localising Memory in Transitional Justice

Mina Rauschenbach is based at the University of Lausanne; Julia Viebach is at the University of Oxford; and Stephan Parmentier is based at KU Leuven.

• General introduction Mina Rauschenbach, Julia Viebach and Stephan Parmentier PART I Memory and transitional justiceInternational memory entrepreneurs’ prescriptions for the remembrance of the Srebrenica genocide: What implications for local understandings of collective victimhood?Mina RauschenbachTransitional justice principles versus survivors’ experience: Conflicting interpretations in Kosovo case study involving missing persons and their memorialisationMelanie Klinkner and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers PART II Memory dynamics in transitional justiceThe micro-politics of remembering “the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi” in Rwanda: On the anonymous dead in Karongi district, western RwandaErin JesseeBottom-up and thought-provoking sites of memoryAnita Ferrara Informal commemoration in post-war Burundi: Exploring the usefulness and the limits of the concept Andrea Purdeková The struggle to remember: Rhodes Must Fall in South AfricaIngrid Samset PART III Localised memory in transitional justicePlace-bound proximity at Rwanda’s genocide memorials: On coming home to the dead and the affective force of their remainsJulia ViebachMissing people and missing stories in the aftermath of genocide: Reclaiming local memories at the places of suffering Hariz HalilovichMusic, testimony, and emotional engagement in alternative memorial ceremonies in Palestine-IsraelLuisa GandolfoEpilogue: Localising memory and reinventing the presentBrandon Hamber