Overview
- Draws on in-depth interviews with the key actors involved in the Red Terror Martyrs Museum's creation and on-going operations
- Explores the contributions of memorialization of mass violence to developing democratic practices
- Argues for why it is instructive to study memory from the margins
Part of the book series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice (MPTJ)
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“The Ethiopian Red Terror is the most significant and least studied atrocity of late twentieth century Africa. This book is the essential work on its memorialization.” (Alex de Waal, World Peace Foundation, Tufts University, USA)
“Bridget Conley's study is a valuable addition to the literature on memory after violence not only because it addresses a context andsubject that have been little discussed before, but because it does so in a way that integrates a deep theoretical reflection with empirical data and an engagement with transitional justice, memory studies and trauma to discuss the challenges and possibilities of memorial museums.” (Simon Robbins, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York, UK)
“Bridget Conley’s work on the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum re-inserts Ethiopia’s Red Terror trials into the global discussion on the murky, often contradictory literature on transitional justice; moreover, it offers groundbreaking research on the ways in which victim memorials are perceived by the creators, interpreters and visitors and how they trigger varied visceral responses and rouses both old and new memories. A must read for those interested in the relationship between memory and history.” (Charles Schaefer, Department of International Studies, Valparaiso University, USA)
“Memory from the Margins is a well-researched and original work that presents the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum as both a reflection of international commemorative trends and a uniquely Ethiopian institution, contributing to our understanding of how local and national transitional justice and memory projects intersect with global norms and transnational forms of commemoration.” (Amy Sodaro, Department of Social Sciences, Borough of Manhattan Community College/City University of New York, USA)
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Book Title: Memory from the Margins
Book Subtitle: Ethiopia’s Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum
Authors: Bridget Conley
Series Title: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13495-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13494-5Published: 21 March 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13497-6Published: 25 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13495-2Published: 13 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-3840
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3859
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 244
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Peace Studies, Memory Studies, Democracy, Conflict Studies, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights