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Moral Autopsy

By Saygun Gökar¿ksel

Moral Autopsy

By Saygun Gökar¿ksel

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While communism was proclaimed dead in Eastern Europe around 1989, archives of communist secret services lived on. They became the site of judicial and moral examination of lives, suspicions of treason or 'collaboration' with the criminalized communist regime, and contending notions of democracy, truth, and justice. Through close study of court trials, biographies, media, films, and plays concerning judges, academics, journalists, and artists who were accused of being communist spies in Poland, this critical ethnography develops the notion of moral autopsy to interrogate the fundamental problems underlying global transitional justice, especially, the binary of authoritarianism and liberalism and the redemptive notions of transparency and truth-telling. It invites us to think beyond Eurocentric teleology of transition, capitalist nation-state epistemology and prerogatives of security and property, and the judicialized and moralized understanding of history and politics.
Product details
Number of Pages:
350
Release Date:
2025-10-31
Publication Date:
2025-09-23
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009653792
ISBN13:
9781009653794
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
658 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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