Author: Edyta Pietrzak / Publishing Institution: Polish Political Science Association (PPSA)

Author:: Inga B. Kuźma and Edyta Pietrzak
Publication Date:: 01-2019
Content Type:: Special Report
Institution:: Polish Political Science Association (PPSA)
Abstract:: The article deals with the subject of relations between theories of violence and the category of collective memory in relation to women’s war stories. The text introduces the issue of war and conflict, understanding the theory of violence, the category of collective memory and female war narratives, as well as the ways of their political interpretation. The interpretation is crucial because of method used in the research, meaning hermeneutics, but also because of the, presented here, perspective of polyphony
Topic:: International Political Economy and International Affairs
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Edyta Pietrzak
Publication Date:: 01-2018
Content Type:: Journal Article
Journal:: Polish Political Science Yearbook
Institution:: Polish Political Science Association (PPSA)
Abstract:: The article presents the entitled fields in the framework of their mutual influence. The notion of the public sphere is valuable for understanding the role that civil society plays in transitional justice processes. However transitional justice often reduces the idea of civil society to NGOs and ignores the social movements and civil engagement in the public realm that can be perceived as integral to the creation of new cases for understanding justice in transition. This fact results in the lack of perception of the civil society place in transitional justice processes. Thus the presented paper is based on hermeneutics, critical discourse analysis and dialogue between various theoretical approaches.
Topic:: Civil Society, Transitional Justice, Public Policy, and NGOs
Political Geography:: Global Focus

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