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Confession, Testimony and Insurgency As Repertoires of Contention in Conflict Zones: The Middle East
Confession, Testimony and Insurgency As Repertoires of Contention in Conflict Zones: The Middle East
Tuesday, 12 July 2016: 10:45-12:15
Location: Hörsaal 21 (Main Building)
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee) Language: English
Confession and testimony are central repertoires of contention in the disclosure of “ugly pasts.” Solidarity movements mobilize testimony to diffuse human rights violations condoned and supported by their own societies. Less attention has been paid to the deployment of testimony and confession by anti-denial movements, movements that demand that the members of their own societies acknowledge the “problematic present” in situations of ongoing ethno-national conflict, and take responsibility for it and action against it.
This session invites research that engage in the analysis of confession and testimony in contemporary conflicts by members of the perpetrator nation amongst them:
- Are these repertoires gendered and how?
- What are the groups that engage in testimony and confession?
- How states and civil societies in perpetrator nations react to anti-denial movements?
- Anti-denial movements and national identity.
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