Introduction: Silence after violence and the imperative to ‘speak out’
From text: During the 1980s, a new dilemma emerged in various democratising nations, mostly in the global south: how should a repressive and violent past bedealt with in the context and as a constitutive part of democratisation?(Borneman 1997). The problem of the uses and abuses of the past instrug...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Acta Academica |
| Online Access: | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/1477 |
| Summary: | From text: During the 1980s, a new dilemma emerged in various democratising nations, mostly in the global south: how should a repressive and violent past bedealt with in the context and as a constitutive part of democratisation?(Borneman 1997). The problem of the uses and abuses of the past instruggles over the public sphere has, of course, been around for centuries. The question arises: what was distinctly ‘new’ in this dilemma?
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| ISSN: | 0587-2405 2415-0479 |