ABSTRACT
The concept of the Global South offers a new framework for thinking about intergenerational reconciliation processes that have emerged in response to southern histories and their post-conflict legacies. Film and television productions that engage with such legacies have most often been approached through the paradigm of trauma theory. The four articles in this dossier seek to shift this paradigm’s Eurocentrism by focusing on films and television series that address the legacies of colonial dispossession, military dictatorship, and genocide in Australia, Chile, New Zealand, and Rwanda. This dossier stems from a proposed collaborative, comparative research project concerned with how screen culture might contribute to processes of reconciliation within nations divided by histories of structural dispossession and state-perpetrated genocidal atrocities.
