Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions
Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions
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John TorpeyJohn Torpey teaches sociology, history, and European studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is at work writing a book about the global spread of demands for reparations for historical injustices, to be published by Harvard University Press. Recent articlesThe entrepreneurs of memory Does the worldwide concern with public apology represent a turning of societys face towards the past, one that closes the possibility of imagining a better future? Bloody TuesdayAt this stage in globalising history America has come to be seen by many as a stand-in for the cosmopolitanism that was once associated with Jews. America represents some kind of soulless, materialistic, rootless way of life that they detest. The past after the futureAs grand visions of national and social freedom have collapsed, the losers of history compete to seek recompense for past injustice. This tidal wave of memory and reparation is also a turning away from the hope of progress. Can our engagement with the past be connected to the imagining of a better future? |
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