ISBN:
978-3-030-13494-5
,
978-3-030-13495-2/(eBook)
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 244 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Memory Politics and Transitional Justice
Keywords:
Äthiopien Bürgerkrieg
;
Befreiungsbewegung
;
Politik und Gesellschaft
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Gedächtnis
;
Museum
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Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum 〈Addis Abeba〉
Abstract:
This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational, national and local forces as they converge in the story of the creation and continued life of one modest museum in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa-the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum. It is a study from multiple margins: neither the case of Ethiopia nor memorialization is central to transitional justice discourse, and within Ethiopia, the history of the Red Terror is sidelined in contemporary politics. From these nested margins, traumatic memory emerges as an ambiguous social and political force. The contributions, meaning and limitations of memory emerge at the point of discrete interactions between memory advocates, survivor-docents and visitors. Memory from the margins is revealed as powerful for how it disrupts, not builds, new forms of community.
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Memory from the Margins; Part I: Memory of Torture; Part II: Memory-Keeping in the Age of Transitional Justice; Becoming a Memory-Keeper; Parallels with the Rise of Transitional Justice; Geopolitics Shifts from Civilian Protection to Self-Protection; Democracy Becomes Problematic; The Mixed Record of Transitional Justice; All Boats Sink Together?; Part III: Memory from the Margins; Part IV: The Margins; The Red Terror on the Margins of Ethiopian Political History; Ethiopia on the Margins of Transitional Justice CasesMemorialization on the Margins of Transitional Justice PracticesPart V: The Contributions of Memory from the Margins; Presents an Understudied Case; Challenges Comparative Memory Studies; Prompts a Re-Examination of Agency and Memory; Reveals That Memory Functions Through Disruption of the Present; Reveals That the Internal Tensions That Compose Memory Are the Source of Its Political Potential; The Structure of the Book; Works Cited; Chapter 2 Revolution and Red Terror, 1974-1978; 'At the Risk of Seeming Ridiculous': On Love, Revolution, and Memory; Revolutionary PassionThe Non-scaleable Part of RevolutionDramatis Personae; Emperor Haile Selassie; The Peasants; The Activists; The Military; The Dynamics of the Red Terror; The Military Takes Over; The EPRP Announces Its Presence; The EPRP Opts for Violent Resistance; The Red Terror; Dissolution; Assessing the Toll; Endings and Memory; Works Cited; Chapter 3 Transitional Influences, 1991-2005; A New Vision of the State; The Violence of Counterinsurgency; The Triumphant EPRDF; Material Objects and Personal Relationships; "You Should Talk to Nunu"; Finding What Is Left; Anchoring RelationshipsMartyrs Memorial Museums: Ethiopia's Museal MomentEthiopia's Memorial Landscape; Mekele, Tigray; Bahir Dar, Amhara; Adama, Oromia; Ethiopia's Museal Moment; Museums of State; Juridical Logic; The Rise of the Memorial Museum; From Juridical Logic into the Museum; Transitional Justice in Ethiopia; Memorialization as an Unexpected Outcome of Juridical Logic; Provocation: Politics of Forgetting, 2005; Memory Ensnared by Politics; Conclusion: Origin Stories; Works Cited; Chapter 4 The Shape of Memory, 2003-2010; The Memorial Museum in Context; The Forms of a MuseumThe Content of a Memorial MuseumEstablishing the Parameters: Memorial, History, and Management; Determining the Memorial Form; Gathering Resources; Determining the Narrative Arc; Assembling the Exhibition; Managing the Museum into the Future; The Design and Exhibition of the Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum; A Structure with a Story; The Aesthetics of the Museum; The Exhibition Narrative; Representing the Terror; Evoking the Violence; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 5 The Tour as Traumatic Performance, 2010-Present; Setting the Scene; The Intended Goal of the Tour; The Survivor-Docent
