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Transitional justice after German reunification : exposing unofficial collaborators / Juan Espindola.

By: Espíndola, Juan [author.].
Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: viii, 273 pages.ISBN: 9781107083127.Subject(s): Transitional justice -- Germany | Informers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Germany | Political crimes and offenses -- Germany (East) | LAW / Criminal Law / GeneralDDC classification: 342.43/0418 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Exposing unofficial collaborators; 2. The regime, the secret police, and coming to terms with the past; 3. The case(s) of the litigating spies: public shame, reputation, and respect; 4. Civic interpellations: denunciation as self-disrespect; 5. Stasi agents as responsible agents? Responsibility and respect; 6. An apology for public apologies: a matter of respect?; 7. The politics of reconciliation: offering respect?; 8. Conclusion: thou all-spying knave, of all deeds of shame.
Summary: "How do societies transitioning from oppressive to democratic rule hold accountable those citizens who contributed to maintaining injustice in the ancient regime by secretly denouncing fellow citizens? Is their public identification a way of fulfilling respect for those who suffered harm as a result of their collaboration? And is public identification respectful of denunciators themselves? This book pursues these questions through a multidisciplinary investigation focusing on the denunciators for the East German secret police and the Ministry of State Security and the way in which they have been publicly unveiled in contemporary German society. The book evaluates the justifications that social actors offer to support or oppose public identifications; how targeted collaborators react to this social practice; and whether it achieves its intended purpose. At every stage, the book asks whether the motivations and the consequences of public identifications honor or undermine the value of respect for people"--
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Univeristy of Michigan, 2011) under title: The Disclosures of Respect : The Public Exposure of Stasi Informers after the German Reunification.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Exposing unofficial collaborators; 2. The regime, the secret police, and coming to terms with the past; 3. The case(s) of the litigating spies: public shame, reputation, and respect; 4. Civic interpellations: denunciation as self-disrespect; 5. Stasi agents as responsible agents? Responsibility and respect; 6. An apology for public apologies: a matter of respect?; 7. The politics of reconciliation: offering respect?; 8. Conclusion: thou all-spying knave, of all deeds of shame.

"How do societies transitioning from oppressive to democratic rule hold accountable those citizens who contributed to maintaining injustice in the ancient regime by secretly denouncing fellow citizens? Is their public identification a way of fulfilling respect for those who suffered harm as a result of their collaboration? And is public identification respectful of denunciators themselves? This book pursues these questions through a multidisciplinary investigation focusing on the denunciators for the East German secret police and the Ministry of State Security and the way in which they have been publicly unveiled in contemporary German society. The book evaluates the justifications that social actors offer to support or oppose public identifications; how targeted collaborators react to this social practice; and whether it achieves its intended purpose. At every stage, the book asks whether the motivations and the consequences of public identifications honor or undermine the value of respect for people"--

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