The essays in the volume deal with different case studies belonging to the fields of media, law, historiography, literature, art, photography, theatre, etc.; and they address the predicaments of quite diverse post-conflict cultures, from that of Portugal and Angola after the fall of the Empire, to Chile and Argentina post-dictatorship; from the role of gender and identity, to that of education and human rights organizations. Given the broad spectrum of the objects they investigate, and the multidisciplinary perspective they effectively put to work, to divide them into neat and well- defined sections based on a category, a genre, a topic, or geographies has proved to be a difficult task. Hence, albeit grouped in six sections (Media and Law, Histories, Visual and Performance Cultures, Genres of Testimonies/ Genres of Reconstruction, Portugal and its lost Empire, Post- dictatorship times and archives in Argentina and Chile), their sequencing mainly reflects the order in which they have been published, which, in itself, mirrors the research interests developed over the years by the once Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures, now the International Consortium for the Study of Post-Conflict Societies.
Demaria, C. (2020). Post-conflict Cultures: A Reader. London : Critical, Cultural and Communications Press.
Post-conflict Cultures: A Reader
Demaria, Cristina
2020
Abstract
The essays in the volume deal with different case studies belonging to the fields of media, law, historiography, literature, art, photography, theatre, etc.; and they address the predicaments of quite diverse post-conflict cultures, from that of Portugal and Angola after the fall of the Empire, to Chile and Argentina post-dictatorship; from the role of gender and identity, to that of education and human rights organizations. Given the broad spectrum of the objects they investigate, and the multidisciplinary perspective they effectively put to work, to divide them into neat and well- defined sections based on a category, a genre, a topic, or geographies has proved to be a difficult task. Hence, albeit grouped in six sections (Media and Law, Histories, Visual and Performance Cultures, Genres of Testimonies/ Genres of Reconstruction, Portugal and its lost Empire, Post- dictatorship times and archives in Argentina and Chile), their sequencing mainly reflects the order in which they have been published, which, in itself, mirrors the research interests developed over the years by the once Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures, now the International Consortium for the Study of Post-Conflict Societies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
