Claims to Truth

.This special issue honours the memory of Vera Zolberg, Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York, who died on November 15 2016. Her work on the intertwinement of memory and the arts broke ground in its theoretical and historical depth and has been a source of inspiration for scholars working in the sociology of culture. In this issue, we, her colleagues, students, and friends, study the relations between artistic representation, and political articulation with the aim of adding new dimensions, especially with respect to the question of reaching historical truth and reconciliation. The tradition of critical interpretive analysis that considers structural and cultural aspects of institutions, memory and the arts, for which Professor Zolberg is an influential voice, is the shared intellectual and theoretical basis of the articles that make up this special issue.