Transitional Justice and Changing Memories of the Past in Central Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7786296 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roman David (0000-0003-3918-8584, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 24-44 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/gov.2013.37 |
| OpenAlex | W2165884770 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
Memories of wrongdoings are often viewed as an obstacle to reconciliation in divided societies. Is it due to the past or the present politics of the past? To examine the dilemma of essentialism versus presentism, this article investigates the impact of transitional justice on memories of wrongdoing. It theorizes that using different transitional justice strategies to deal with the same wrongdoing shapes memories in different ways. The theory is tested via vignette-based surveys in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, which adopted distinct lustration laws. The results show that wrongdoing is viewed through lustration laws, reflecting present power constellations, not history
Economic Justice · Essentialism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Presentism · Sociology · Transitional justice · Wrongdoing · Gender Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Soviet and Russian History
Memory and Amnesia
Making capitalism without capitalists
The symbolic uses of politics
The wages of guilt
How Societies Remember
Modern Hatreds
Transitional Justice
Meaning and Moral Order
Ritual, politics, and power
The Politics of Memory and Democratization
Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition
Closing the Books
State Repression and the Labors of Memory
On Collective Memory
Forgiveness and Mercy
Dealing with the Communist Past or the Politics of the Present? Lustration in Post-Communist Poland
Lustration and Democratisation in East-Central Europe
Dealing with the communist past
Lustration Laws in Action
Lustration as a Problem of the Social Basis of Constitutionalism
Divergent responses to a common past
Identities and Social Structure
Explaining lustration in Central Europe
The communist torturers of Eastern Europe
Meaning and Moral Order
Transitional Justice and Memory
The Use of Vignettes in Survey Research
From Prague to Baghdad
Does Truth Lead to Reconciliation? Testing the Causal Assumptions of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Process
Social Change and Collective Memory
Generations and Collective Memories
Memory as a Cultural System
Genre Memories and Memory Genres
Selective Memory
The Unforgotten
Lustration Systems and Trust
Anti-politics and the spirit of capitalism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |