Political Transition: Politics And Cultures

Gready 00 prelims 18/11/03 13:56 Page iii Political Transition Politics and Cultures Edited by Paul Gready Pluto P Press LONDON • STERLING, VIRGINIA Gready 00 prelims 18/11/03 13:56 Page iv First published 2003 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA and 22883 Quicksilver Drive, Sterling, VA 20166-2012, USA www.plutobooks.com Copyright © Paul Gready 2003 The right of the individual contributors to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7453 2042 2 hardback ISBN 0 7453 2041 4 paperback Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Political transition : politics and cultures / edited by Paul Gready. p. cm. ISBN 0–7453–2042–2 (hc) –– ISBN 0–7453–2041–4 (pb) 1. Political culture––Case studies. 2. Political science. I. Gready, Paul. JA75.7 .P6627 2003 306.2'09'0511––dc21 2002154508 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Designed and produced for Pluto Press by Chase Publishing Services, Fortescue, Sidmouth, EX10 9QG England Typeset from disk by Stanford DTP Services, Towcester, England Printed and bound in the European Union by Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne, England Gready 00 prelims 18/11/03 13:56 Page v Contents 1 Introduction Paul Gready PART I The Politics of Memory 2 Remembering and Forgetting ‘Zimbabwe’: Towards a Third Transition Christine Sylvester 3 Contested Memories of Repression in the Southern Cone: Commemorations in a Comparative Perspective Elizabeth Jelin 4 ‘What is Written in Our Hearts’: Memory, Justice and the Healing of Fragmented Communities Victoria Sanford 5 Memory and Forgetting: The Roma Holocaust István Pogány PART II 1 29 53 70 90 Identities 6 Continuity and Discontinuity of East German Identity Following the Fall of the Berlin Wall: A Case Study Molly Andrews 7 Mobilising Memories: Protestant and Unionist Victims’ Groups and the Politics of Victimhood in the Irish Peace Process Graham Dawson 8 ‘In the Name of the Victims’: The Politics of Compensation in the Work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Lars Buur 9 The Construction of Voice and Identity in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Fiona C. Ross 107 127 148 165 Gready 00 prelims vi 18/11/03 13:56 Page vi Political Transition PART III Re-making Space 10 Remembering Ordinary Agency Under East German State Socialism: Revelations of the Rostock District Record, 1978–89 Joan Hackeling 11 Insinuating Spaces: Memories of a Madrid Neighbourhood During the Spanish Transition Steven Marsh 12 Public Bad, Public Good(s) and Private Realities Carolyn Nordstrom PART IV 183 198 212 Testimony and Voices 13 The Politics of Memory and International Trials for Wartime Rape Julie Mertus 14 Networks of Memory: Chileans Debate Democracy and the Pinochet Legacy Over an Internet Forum Eliza Tanner Hawkins 15 Reconciling Reconciliation: A Personal and Public Journey of Testifying Before