CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Toth, Mano Gabor |
|---|---|
| Title | Symbols in Transitions: Public Places, Reparatory Justice, and the Statue Park |
| Summary | In this paper, I present a new victim-oriented reading of the policies aimed at restructuring public places based on the transitional justice and on the geography of memory literatures and on a normative reconstruction of past events. My main theoretical argument is that the removal of authoritarian symbols from public view can be considered in itself as an institution of reparatory justice, and that transitional societies have moral obligations to implement such policies, preferably with explicit reference to victims. In addition to this theoretical reasoning, I also explore its theoretical and practical limitations and I conduct a case study using essentially qualitative methods. I have decided to focus on the Statue Park of Budapest and my primary goal is to determine whether the theoretically and morally desirable victim-oriented considerations played a role in the decisions of the policy-makers. The result of this analysis is that the empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that victim-oriented approaches played a significant role in the decision-making process, but only in an implicit and marginal way. |
| Supervisor | Dimitrijevic, Nenad |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/toth_mano-gabor.pdf |
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