Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts : Global Perspectives on Commemoration and Mobilization (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Feminist Understandings of Memorial Arts and Symbolic Reparations Jelke Boesten and Helen Scanlon Part I Sites of Commemoration 2. A Feminist Reading of Sites of Commemoration in Peru Jelke Boesten 3. Gender, Genocide and Memorialisation in Namibia Penahole Brock and Ester Muinjangue 4. Gender and Memory: Lessons from the Gukurahundi Massacre in Zimbabwe Nompilo Ndlovu 5. Memory Politics and the Emergence of a Women’s Sphere to Counter Historical Violence in Korea Seong Nae Kim 6. Calling everything into question: the place of black women in post-1994 South African commemoration Yvette Hutchison Part II Arts and Symbolic Reparation 7. Genocide & Epistemicide: Symbolic and Restorative Justice Beyond South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission June Bam-Hutchison 8. Do Symbolic Reparations in Brazil Help Women to Escape from Silence and to Transform Their Lives? Lucia Elena Arantes Ferreira Bastos and Ines Virginia Prado Soares 9. Fabricating Reconciliation in Canada Rachel Kerr 10. Women Awake: Gender and Commemoration in Contemporary Ireland Michelle LeBaron 11. Touching Pain: The Matrixial Experience of Trauma in Works by Doris Salcedo Margarita Saona Part III Transformative Gender Justice? 12. Memories of Violence Against Women and Girls across borders: Transformative gender justice through the arts among Brazilian women migrants in London Cathy McIlwaine 13. Theatre for Transformative Gender Justice: A Comparison of Three Peruvian Plays on Rape during Political Violence Alexandra Hibbett 14. "The Past is in the Present and Noone Seems Responsible for Putting it There": Gender, Memory And Mobilisation In Post-Apartheid South Africa Helen Scanlon