{"id":41281,"date":"2024-06-21T23:39:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T23:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=41281"},"modified":"2024-06-21T23:39:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T23:39:55","slug":"cira-palli-aspero-clarifying-the-past-understanding-historical-commissions-in-conflicted-and-divided-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=41281","title":{"rendered":"Cira Pall\u00ed-Asper\u00f3, &#8220;Clarifying the Past: Understanding Historical Commissions in Conflicted and Divided Societies&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Clarifying the Past<\/em> provides a comprehensive analysis of state-sponsored historical commissions operating in conflicted and divided societies, developing a theoretical and methodological framework within the historical dialogue paradigm, key to understanding the work of such commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theoretical and methodological framework is complemented with an extensive empirical analysis of 27 historical commissions that operated in different social and political contexts from 1990s to the present. The detailed examination of these cases gives a broad perspective into the potential capacities of historical commissions in different settings. Although only sampling the most recent cases, this volume shows how the steady increase of the number of historical commissions indicates that we are not dealing with a marginal phenomenon. The increased recognition of the potential of historical commissions to address the legacies of contested pasts and potential introduction of such commissions to transitional justice, makes this book highly relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book has been written with the objective of deepening and broadening the existing knowledge on state-sponsored historical commissions. Its intended audiences are scholars and practitioners in the fields of&nbsp;historical theory, public history, and historical dialogue, transitional justice, peace and conflict studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0. Introduction&nbsp; <strong>PART I: Understanding Historical Commissions&nbsp; <\/strong>1. The Politics of the Past and the Production of Historical Knowledge&nbsp; 2. Historical Commissions: A conceptual Framework&nbsp; 3. Institutionalisation of Historical Commissions&nbsp; 4. Historical Commissions\u2019 Methods of Practice&nbsp; <strong>PART II: Mapping Historical Commissions&nbsp; <\/strong>5. Introduction to the empirical analysis&nbsp; 6. Diplomatic historical commissions&nbsp; 7. Post-totalitarian historical commissions&nbsp; 8. (Post)conflict historical commissions&nbsp; 9. Post-Colonial historical commissions&nbsp; 10. The suitability of the historical method and contribution of the cases to the historical commissions\u2019 conceptual framework.&nbsp; <strong>Epilogue&nbsp; <\/strong>11. Placing historical commissions within the transitional justice paradigm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cira Pall\u00ed-Asper\u00f3<\/strong> is a research fellow at the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University. Her work lies at the nexus of historiography and transitional justice with focus on state-sanctioned historical commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Clarifying-the-Past-Understanding-Historical-Commissions-in-Conflicted-and-Divided-Societies\/Palli-Aspero\/p\/book\/9780367500993\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Clarifying-the-Past-Understanding-Historical-Commissions-in-Conflicted-and-Divided-Societies\/Palli-Aspero\/p\/book\/9780367500993<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Commissions.png?fit=600%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54256,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54256","url_meta":{"origin":41281,"position":0},"title":"CfP Seventh biennial conference Past, Present, Future (Pula, Croatia, October 15\u201316, 2026)","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"22. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Call for Papers Bonds of Unity: Solidarity and Society Across History Seventh biennial conference in the series Past, Present, Future Pula, Croatia, October 15\u201316, 2026 In recent years, the concept of solidarity has once again emerged as a central topic in public discourse. 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