RT Book
T1 Remembering genocide in Namibia
T2 Working papers
JF Working papers
A1 Reitz, Núrel Bahí
A2 Mannitz, Sabine 1965-
LA English
PP Frankfurt am Main
PB Peace Research Institute Frankfurt
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1762996103
AB The paper seeks to provide an overview of memory politics in Namibia. Most of the German media and political debates addressing the genocide committed against the Herero, Nama, Damara, and San by the German Schutztruppen during the 1904-1908 counterinsurgency in the former German South-West Africa are focused on possible legal implications. Consequences of 'our' ways of dealing with the past for 'their' domestic relations and memory cultural struggles in Namibia tend to be overlooked. Our paper intends to foster a more thorough understanding of foreign policy decisions' implications for the target societies' struggle for recognition. To that end, we first outline key actors in the Namibian memory politics and present contested historical narratives that can be found in the different actor groups. In a second step practices surrounding three physical memory sites in the Namibian mnemoscape are analysed, and memorialisation through commemoration is discussed. Finally, the paper draws attention to the necessity of including as well hitherto marginalized societal actors as controversial topics in memory culture debates to create an arena for productive contestation.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 18-19
K1 Geschichte
K1 Kolonialismus
K1 Kollektives Gedächtnis
K1 Denkmal
K1 Kriegsverbrechen
K1 Völkermord
K1 Opfer : Sozialpsychologie
K1 Regierungspartei
K1 Namibia