Taking Responsibility for the Pasts
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Abstract One of the most significant connections between power and responsibility occurs in relation to past. The post-revolutionary political powers new nations nineteenth century reinterpreted or, less politely formulated, invented their past fit process nation building only then take for future development nations. And they were not alone: pre-nineteenth periods 20th 21st centuries abound with examples. In our personal lives, self-empowerment often depends on capacity one’s past, including all its happy traumatic moments. a court room forensic evidence events alone gives judges decide fate defendant. neither cases can work together without activating individual collective memory finding language express as manifestation political, formal legitimization, legal affirmation justice identity formation. With literary examples from South Africa this article discusses troubled
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عنوان ژورنال: Pólemos
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2238-7692']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pol-2021-2013