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Experiments with truth : Documenta 11, Platform 2 / edited by Okwui Enwezor ... [et al.].
Author(s)
Enwezor, Okwui
Collation
404 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN
3775790802
Dewey Class
909.82
Contents
Making sense of political violence in postcolonial Africa / Mahmood Mamdani -- Different kinds of truth : the South African truth and reconciliation commission / Albie Sachs -- Is truth the road to reconciliation? / Avishai Margalit -- Truth and reconciliation are not what we really need / Boris Buden -- The "melancholization" of the witness : the impotence of words, the power of images / Geneviève Morel -- Sagas of victory, memories of defeat? The long afterlife of an Indo-Muslim warrior saint, 1033-2000 / Shahid Amin -- The order of truth and the order of society / Yadh Ben Achour -- A finer balance : an essay on the possibility of reconciliation / Dilip Simeon -- Trauma and truth / Rory Bester -- The persistence of memory : the search for truth, justice, and reconciliation / Urvashi Butalia -- An experiment in international criminal justice : the philosophy, methodology, and working of the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / Gurjot Malhi -- Facts versus truth : the dilemmas of a reluctant member of a truth and reconciliation commission / Vojin Dimitrijević -- Torture, recovery, and truth in Morocco / Susan Slyomovics -- The search for the truth before the courts / María José Guembe -- Transitional justice as liberal narrative / Ruti Teitel -- The denial of justice and the loss of the subject / Franz Kaltenbeck -- Archive images : truth or memory? The case of Adolf Eichmann's trial / Eyal Sivan -- It is difficult / Alfredo Jaar -- The logic of reconciliation / Barbara Maria Stafford -- African literature and the Rwandan expedition / Manthia Diawara -- The democratization of memory / Lolle Nauta -- Constructing memorials / Susana Torre -- Between truth and reconciliation : experiments in theater and public culture / Rustom Bharucha.
Language
en
Subject
World politics -- Congresses. Truth -- Congresses.
BRN
5039
Title
Experiments with truth : Documenta 11, Platform 2 /
Content Type
text
Media Type
unmediated
Carrier Type
volume
Imprint
Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz, 2002
Notes
"Conference held in New Delhi, India ... May 8-12, 2001"--T.p. verso.