2011
DOI: 10.1177/1750698011405183
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Governing memory: Justice, reconciliation and outreach at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

Abstract: This article explores how devolved outreach work for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia works to govern the past as it acts to reshape and reframe potentially ambivalent and conflicting memories of political violence. The article specifically examines an example of outreach targeting a former Khmer Rouge community that has been situated as a key party in Cambodia's attempts to realize 'justice' and 'reconciliation'. The article analyses the sites and crucibles of memory that outreach work for… Show more

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“…What does it mean to be responsible for something when it seems nearly impossible to identify with any certainty a cause, or even a consistently identifiable actor? How does a society’s legal system, as, in some respects, the formal government of social memory (Manning, 2012), accommodate these problems? And, more abstractly, how do shifts in the conception of social memory allow for the indictment of not only the individual or social entity found responsible for an event (insofar as it remains intelligible to think of social injustice in individual terms at all), but also (and perhaps more so) for the indictment of the logic we adhere to and reproduce daily?…”
Section: Concluding Thoughts: the Framing Of Guilt Through A Spectaclmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…What does it mean to be responsible for something when it seems nearly impossible to identify with any certainty a cause, or even a consistently identifiable actor? How does a society’s legal system, as, in some respects, the formal government of social memory (Manning, 2012), accommodate these problems? And, more abstractly, how do shifts in the conception of social memory allow for the indictment of not only the individual or social entity found responsible for an event (insofar as it remains intelligible to think of social injustice in individual terms at all), but also (and perhaps more so) for the indictment of the logic we adhere to and reproduce daily?…”
Section: Concluding Thoughts: the Framing Of Guilt Through A Spectaclmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is possible to identify something akin to Felman's revolution occurring in the case of the ECCC. Legal outreach activities, weekly national radio programmes, live or near-live video uploads, and access to transcripts, commentary, and images of the ECCC are expanding the sphere of public interest and debate around law (Elander, 2014;Manning, 2012;Sperfeldt, 2012;Un and Ledgerwood, 2010). New geographies of justice both within and beyond Cambodia are being forged, not least through the participation of rural Cambodians, diasporic Cambodians (Nou, 2013), and Khmer-language media groups.…”
Section: The Eccc and The 'Show Trial' Chargementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this article, we first explore the extent to which SWAPO defines the state through the production of a hegemonic narrative about the Namibian past. Recognizing that “public memory practices are essentially political” and are central components of the process of building and legitimizing the nation-state (Arnoldi, 2006: 55–56; see also Manning, 2011), we analyze Namibia as a memory state in which the ruling party defines itself primarily through reference to the anti-apartheid past. Next, we examine how this political context shapes the reparations movement’s strategies and tactics, with attention to how different activist groups position themselves and their historical narratives with respect to the state.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%