Promoting Communication for Social Change
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2010/2 The Right To Memory |
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| The right to memory is a matter of justice. In all communities and societies, the choice of what is recorded in the public memory and the way it is represented is not neutral but happens in accord with predetermined perceptions and policies. This politics of remembering or forgetting essentially constitutes a struggle for power. Wherever justice is absent, wherever a politics of enforced amnesia reigns, it falls to civil society organisations to be the spokespersons of history and public memory, even if that means being in conflict with the particularities of deep trauma. In such cases, the right to memory is in symbiosis with the right to justice. |
Towards a right to memory, by Philip Lee Hacia un derecho a la memoria, por Philip Lee [traducido por Rolando Pérez]
Gender and the right to memory, by Anna Reading
Media, memory and emergence, by Andrew Hoskins
Memory and forgetting, by Judith Vidal-Hall
Memorias que duelen, cuestionan, y provocan esperanza, por Germán Vargas
La porfiada memoria, por Marcia Scantlebury
Rwanda’s paradox of remembering and suffering, by Jean-Pierre Karegeye
Memories of violence in Mozambique, by Victor Igreja
Spain and the memory that will not die, by Julius Purcell
Helping Dominicans recover their memory, by Gabrielle Lorne
A genocide denied, by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Atom Egoyan on language and memory, by Ron Burnett
‘His name was Ned’: Memories of cinema and segregation, by James M. Wall
Advocating for peace, by Jan Servaes
Berlinale 2010 focuses on family and freedom, by Philip Lee |
WACC promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that defines people's common humanity, strengthens cultures, enables participation, creates community and challenges tyranny and oppression.
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