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Rethinking Transitional Gender JusticeRecalling Violence: Gender and Memory Work in Contemporary Post-conflict Peru

Rethinking Transitional Gender Justice: Recalling Violence: Gender and Memory Work in... [Drawing on the memory battles in contemporary Peru, Jelke Boesten explores victimhood, agency and representation across lines of class, race and gender. In particular, she looks at how gendered aspects of violence are recalled in artistic representations of the past, and if and how such representations may provide any form of redress, reparation or consolation for victim-survivors of war. Such a gendered reading of commemorative practices and symbolic reparations highlights what is not said, what is still hidden and whose trauma is at stake—and whose is not.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Rethinking Transitional Gender JusticeRecalling Violence: Gender and Memory Work in Contemporary Post-conflict Peru

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Shackel, Rita; Fiske, Lucy

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
ISBN
978-3-319-77889-1
Pages
165 –185
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-77890-7_9
Publisher site
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Abstract

[Drawing on the memory battles in contemporary Peru, Jelke Boesten explores victimhood, agency and representation across lines of class, race and gender. In particular, she looks at how gendered aspects of violence are recalled in artistic representations of the past, and if and how such representations may provide any form of redress, reparation or consolation for victim-survivors of war. Such a gendered reading of commemorative practices and symbolic reparations highlights what is not said, what is still hidden and whose trauma is at stake—and whose is not.]

Published: Oct 9, 2018

Keywords: Working Memory; Symbolic Reparations; Memory Battles; Boesten; Memorial Art

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