Representing Communism After the Fall Discourse, Memory, and Historical Redress /

• Main Author: Tileagă, Cristian (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology
• Subjects: Community psychology.; Environmental psychology.; Discourse analysis.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Psycholinguistics.; Historiography.; Political sociology.; Community and Environmental Psychology.; Discourse Analysis.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Memory Studies.; Political Sociology.

This book explores the contribution of discursive psychology and discourse analysis to researching the relationship between history and collective memory. Analysing significant manifestations of the moral vocabulary of the Romanian transition from communism to democracy, the author demonstrates how...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction: what does coming to terms with the past mean?
• 1. Transitional justice as situated practices
• 2. Collective and cultural memory: ethics, politics, and avoidance in remembering communism
• 3. Communism as moral problem
• 4. Communism as Other
• 5. Mea culpa
• 6. Remembering with and through archives
• 7. Transgression and the social construction of moral meanings
• 8. Using discursive psychology to explore contested and troubled pasts.