Icebergs and other hazards: an epilogue

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Title: Icebergs and other hazards: an epilogue
Author(s): Neumann, Klaus
Abstract: The articles in this Special Issue of Time & Society provide a fascinating panorama of the range of factors responsible for the acknowledgement and remembrance of historical wrongs. The authors explore some of the means by which historical injustices are addressed, including apologies and reparations, and discuss how memories of 'unquiet pasts' (Torpey, 2003) are kept alive or revived – for example, in museums or through commemorative ceremonies. In what follows I do not revisit these issues in any detail. Instead, I draw attention to questions that could arise out of the conclusions drawn in the six articles and in the introduction, and query some of the implicit assumptions that underlie arguments made in this Special Issue. In other words, rather than concluding a discussion, I am trying to open it up by pointing towards potentially productive avenues for further research.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research
Source: Time and Society, Vol. 21, no. 1 (Mar 2012), pp. 121-131
Publication year: 2012
FOR Code(s): 1608 Sociology; 2103 Historical Studies
Keyword(s): Historical justice; Historical wrongs; Public memory
Publisher: Sage Publications
ISSN: 0961-463X
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463x11432056
Peer reviewed