Seeking meaning, seeking justice in a post-Cold War world

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: New Perspectives from the Post-Cold War World -- Part 1 Seeking Meaning -- Section 1 Historians, Sources and the New Modalities of History -- 1 Writing Australia's Cold War through History and Memoir -- 2 Post-Cold War Conflict: Historians, Espionage and American Communism -- 3 Forgetting and Remembering Pol Pot: Judging the Cold War Past in Sweden -- 4 Changing Interpretations of the Pinochet Dictatorship and its Victims in Chilean Memorial Inscriptions Since the End of the Cold War -- Section 2 Media-Derived Representations of the Cold War and Post-Cold War -- 5 All [not so] Quiet on the Korean Front. Lewis Milestone and Anti-War Cinema during and after the Cold War -- 6 From The Year of Living Dangerously to The Act of Killing in Popular Imaginings of Indonesian Cold War History -- Section 3 Intergenerational Interrogations. Children of the Cold War -- 7 Why did you Abandon Us? The Children of Chilean Revolutionaries Confront Their Parents -- 8 A Father's Cold War Exile and a Daughter's Search for Reconciliation -- Part 2 Seeking Justice -- Section 4 Modalities of Memorialisation and Memory -- 9 Disappearance, Exhumation and Reburial: The Historical Recovery of Victims in Post-Cold War Argentina and Spain -- 10 Revisiting the Cold War through Twenty-First Century Museums of Memory of the Americas -- Section 5 Breaking Cold War Silences. Challenging Colonialism and Patriarchy -- 11 Why the War in Cameroon Never Took Place -- 12 Between Patriarchy and Anti-Communism: Widowhood in Cold War and Post-Cold War Korea -- Index.

Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in the Post-Cold War World, edited by Judith Keene and Elizabeth Rechniewski, addresses the diverse modes by which the Cold War is being re-assessed, with major focus on countries on the periphery of Cold War confrontation.