Mario Laarmann, "Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire: Perspecti"
English | ISBN: 3110799502 | 2023 | 330 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 120 MB
English | ISBN: 3110799502 | 2023 | 330 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 120 MB
Over the past roughly two decades, the interconnected concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained renewed momentum - in academic discourse as much as in activist, artistic, and political contexts.
This development insists on a critique of the material and systemic conditions of societies and global relations. In their 2018 report on the restitution of looted cultural artifacts, for example, Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr discuss restitutions in the light of a new ethics of relations. Individual acts of restitution, but also the processes of material and immaterial reparation that go with them, are viewed as mediators in the by definition
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