Political Crime and the Memory of Loss

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Loss is a fundamental human condition that often leads both individualsand groups to seek redress in the form of violence. But are there possible modes ofredress to reckon with loss that might lead to a departure from the violence ofcollective and individual revenge? This book focuses on the redress of politicalcrime in Germany and Lebanon, extending its analysis to questions of accountabilityand democratization in the United States and elsewhere. To understand the proposedmodes of redress, John Borneman links the way the actors define their injuries tothe cultural forms of redress these injuries assume and to the social contexts inwhich they are open to refiguring. Borneman theorizes modes of accountability, themeaning of "regime change" and the American occupation of Iraq, and the mechanismsof democratic authority in Europe and North America.