Episode 6: Resisting Reconciliation with Nayanika Mookherjee

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Episode 6: Resisting Reconciliation with Nayanika Mookherjee

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In the final episode of this series, we hear from Professor of Political Anthropology Nayanika Mookherjee. Nayanika joins us from home to talk about her work around post-conflict reconciliation. Expectations of forgiveness often make it incumbent upon survivors to reconcile and seek closure as an exhibition of ‘moving on’ for a ‘happy’ future – but what if this fails to address injustice? Drawing on her recently published book On Irreconciliation, Nayanika examines the need to not forgive as a political stance, and how irreconciliation can create an indeterminate future – or ‘frozenness’.

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Produced for Durham Book Festival with support from Durham University. Presented and directed by Lucie McNeil. Find out more about the project here.

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