This open access book explores the political utility and consequences of memory laws with a focus on how militant memory laws frame, underpin and generate inter…

This article compares legislation addressing the legacy of slavery in France and the Netherlands. By virtue of its 2001 ‘Taubira Law’, France recognised the transatlantic slave trade as a crime agains...

Laat Ketikoti ook een pleidooi zijn voor het Nederlandse herinneringsmodel: geen ingewikkelde wetgeving met risico’s op politisering en juridisch getouwtrek, maar met publieke en verbindende excuses.

While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the adoption of a law by its parliament, the Netherlands has opted for more sym...