Repair through empathy
Narratives of reconciliation in two white terror memorial parks in Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12815290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | HELEN MURPHY (0000-0002-5489-0614, Ming Chuan University, corresponding author), Ya-ling Chang (National Ilan University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museums & Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-6893 • E-ISSN: 2051-6193 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15596893.2022.2116781 |
| OpenAlex | W4295242246 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Taiwan has emerged from its authoritarian past into a democratic present, bearing the scars of traumatic and violent historic events. As symbols of repressive histories, penal museums in Taiwan stand at the center of questions about how traumatic pasts can be reconciled and justice sought for victims of previous regimes. By close semiotic examination of two museums that served as sites of incarceration during the White Terror period (1949–1987), this study uses multimodal discourse analysis to understand how these places are used to construct narratives about transitional justice. Hardship, control and human rights narratives are used to construct empathy, conducive to the acceptance and deepening of transitional justice efforts in post-authoritarian Taiwan. These museums help to recover the truth of the authoritarian past and place the experience of Taiwanese political prisoners in the larger context of global human rights and transitional justice narratives
Art · Authoritarianism · Construct (python library · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Democracy · Empathy · Human rights · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transitional justice · White (mutation · Cambodian History and Society · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Taiwan
From Detached Concern to Empathy
Exhibiting Atrocity
Mediating Memory in the Museum
Cognitive Empathy and Emotional Empathy in Human Behavior and Evolution
Rehumanizing the Other
Psychoanalysis for a new humanism
Remembering and Representing Imprisonment in Postcolonial Cities
Transcending Victimhood
The Culture of Punishment
Postcolonial remembering in Taiwan
Collective memory and sacred space in post-genocide Rwanda
Healing the roots of genocide in Rwanda
Pigeon racing clubs in Pas-de-Calais, France, 1870–1914
Longing for Lost Normalcy
Reconciliation(s)
Critical Punishment Memorialization in Canada
Prison Heritage, Public History and Archaeology at Fannie Bay Gaol, Northern Australia
Introducing human rights education within a memorial museum framework
Anthropology of Experience
Building Memory
Post-totalitarian national identity
Trauma Site Museums and Politics of Memory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |