Citizenship and Government - Projects

Social Memory and Historical Justice

In this ARC-funded project, we analyse how the victimisation of minorities is publicly and collectively remembered in a range of countries, including Australia, New Zealand, the Ukraine, Spain, Austria, Germany, Peru and Mexico. We explore how memories are contested and how communities actively negotiate the legacies of the past, and aim to identify key factors that enable democratic societies to work towards historical justice. ISR Researchers working on this international collaborative project include Klaus Neumann, Maria Tumarkin, Jill Stockwell, Paul Reade and Michaela Callaghan.