Narratives of identity in social movements, conflicts and change
edited by Landon E. Hancock
Front Cover -- Narratives of Identity in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction: Narrative, Identity, and Social Movement Activism -- References -- Section I: Narratives of Identity -- "Survivors get gacaca, we get nothing:" Constructing Victimhood in Rwanda -- Methodology -- Reconciliation and Gacaca -- Gacaca -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Speak Up, Write Out: Language and Populism in Croatia -- Introduction -- Theoretical Framework -- Official Use of Language in Croatia -- The Context of Vukovar -- Anti-Cyrillic Protests in Vukovar -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- It Can Be Helped: Survivor Docent Testimony at the Japanese American National Museum -- Addressing Silence through the Dialogic Practices of the Japanese American National Museum -- Introducing Internment -- Introducing the Museum -- Museums as Sites of Restorative Justice -- On Testimony -- Articulating Narratives: Testimony as Personal -- Testimony as Social and Political -- Deconstructing Survivors and Victims -- Applications for Museums and Transitional Justice -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Using the Human Rights Framework as a Mobilizing Tool. The Case of Indigenous Women's Movements in Post-Conflict Guatemala -- Introduction -- Indigenous Women's Mobilization during Conflict -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Social Movement Spillover -- Localizing Human Rights -- Fieldwork Methodology -- The Indigenous Experience-Based Feminism of Kaqla -- Goal and Premises -- Kaqla's Work in Practice -- Using Women's Own Frames of Reference -- Mobilizing Around Internalized Oppression -- Integrating Different Spheres of Women's Lives -- Theoretical Relevance of Experience-Based Indigenous Feminism -- Social Movement Spillover.
This volume focuses on analyses of identity and narratives of identity in conflict outbreaks, dynamics, resolution and/or post-conflict peacebuilding and transitional justice.