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When Will We Talk About Hitler? - German Students And The Nazi Past

by Alexandra Oeser

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 What do ordinary Germans think of their country's Nazi past? Do young Germans just want to "move on?" Combining observation, interviews, and archival work, the studies conducted in this book explore these questions to reveal the complexity of history and how young Germans view Nazism's place in contemporary society.
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Resettlers And Survivors - Bukovina And The Politics Of Belonging In West Germany And Israel, 1945-1989

by Gaëlle Fisher

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 Resettlers and Survivors focuses on two groups of Bukovinians-ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews-who navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in 1945. This study gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II.
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Struggle For The Past - How We Construct Social Memories

by Elizabeth Jelin

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 Organized around Argentine "memory wars" since the 1970s, The Struggle for the Past undertakes an innovative exploration of memory's dynamic social character. It also gives an illuminating account of the emergence and development of Memory Studies as a field.
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Towards A Collaborative Memory - German Memory Work In A Transnational Context

by Sara Jones

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 For the first time, this volume creates a sustained study that positions together transnational memory and relational sociology to consider the memory of the GDR. Towards a Collaborative Memory advances the field of transnational memory studies and develops new theoretical approaches that re-evaluate our understanding of actor-driven European memory.
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Right To Memory - History, Media, Law, And Ethics

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 The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals. With case studies including Polish Holocaust Law, the Indian origins of Amartya Sen s capability theory approach, and the right to memory through digital technologies in Brazilian and British museums, this collected volume seeks to establish the right to memory as a foundational topic in memory studies.
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Reading War, Making Memory - Remembering The Bosnian War Across Europe

by Fedja Wierã¸D Borcak, Jessica Ortner e Tea Sindbã¦K Andersen

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 A clarifying analysis of how authors from Bosnia-Herzegovina translate and transmit the memory of the Bosnian War into their fiction, Reading War, Making Memory spotlights a vital new framework for understanding the impact of conflict upon diasporic literature from the region of the former Yugoslavia: â€œmnemonic migration.â€
Autistic Dreaming - Vibrant Memory, Activism, Environment

by Anna Reading

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 An exacting reassessment of neurodiversity within activist and artistic communities, Autistic Dreaming illuminates how the integration of neurodivergent perspectives within critical memory studies has the opportunity to expand ideas about the relationship between the individual and collective, and reform our method of remembrance.
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The Duty Of Memory

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The Duty Of Memory - Changing Language In The Era Of Memory, 1970 Â€“ 2010

by Sébastien Ledoux

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 An illuminating investigation into the evolution of the phrase â€œduty of memoryâ€, this volume spotlights how this theory of memory has been historicized and transmitted throughout French society, highlighting how its trajectory offers a lens for understanding contemporary societiesâ€™ relationship with the past on a global scale.
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The Northern Ireland Conflict On The Margins Of History

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The Northern Ireland Conflict On The Margins Of History - Protestant Memory On The Border

by Cillian Mcgrattan e Kenneth Funston

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 In thisexacting re-examination of paramilitary violence upon border Protestants within Northern Ireland, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History illuminates the understudied impact the Troubles had upon the Protestant communityâ€™s physical, economic, and cultural presence within the border counties.
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Northern Ireland Conflict On The Margins Of History - Protestant Memory On The Border

by Cillian Mcgrattan e Kenneth Funston

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 In thisexacting re-examination of paramilitary violence upon border Protestants within Northern Ireland, The Northern Ireland Conflict on the Margins of History illuminates the understudied impact the Troubles had upon the Protestant communityâ€™s physical, economic, and cultural presence within the border counties.
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Carnivalizing Reconciliation - Contemporary Australian And Canadian Literature And Film Beyond The Victim Paradigm

by Hanna Teichler

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 This book analyzes, within the realms of national literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is carnivalesque, temporarily overturning discursive hierarchies.
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Mobility Of Memory - Migrations And Diasporas Across European Borders

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 Migration is most concretely defined by the movement of human bodies, but it leaves indelible traces on everything from individual psychology to major social movements. Drawing on extensive field research, and with a special focus on Italy and the Netherlands, this interdisciplinary volume explores the interrelationship of migration and memory at scales both large and small, ranging across topics that include oral and visual forms of memory, archives, and artistic innovations. By engaging with the complex tensions between roots and routes, minds and bodies, The Mobility of Memory offers an incisive and empirically grounded perspective on a social phenomenon that continues to reshape both Europe and the world.
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Nordic War Stories - World War Ii As History, Fiction, Media, And Memory

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 Nordic War Stories explores the commonalities and divergences among the five Nordic countries, examining formal and informal national historiographies alongside representations of the second world war in canonical literary works, memoirs, and films.
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Velvet Retro - Postsocialist Nostalgia And The Politics Of Heroism In Czech Popular Culture

by Veronika Pehe

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 This innovative study develops the concept of â€œretroâ€ to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nationâ€™s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.
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Agency In Transnational Memory Politics

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 The dynamics of transnational memory play a central role in modern politics, from postsocialist efforts at transitional justice to the global legacies of colonialism. Yet, the relatively young subfield of transnational memory studies remains underdeveloped and fractured across numerous disciplines, even as nascent, boundary-crossing theories on topics such as multi-vocal, traveling, or entangled remembrance suggest new ways of negotiating difficult political questions. This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the "who" and the "how" of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.
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De-Commemoration - Removing Statues And Renaming Places

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 In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance.
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Microhistories Of Memory - Remediating The Holocaust By Bullets In Postwar West Germany

by Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

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 The West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (Am grunen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has gradually regained popularity in recent years. Originally circulated in postwar West Germany, the Holocaust representations embedded in this multi-medium work have shaped cultural memories up until today. Using numerous archival sources, Microhistories of Memory presents three comprehensive case studies to explore production, reception, and circulation of cultural memories, demonstrating the power of informal communication and providing behind-the-scenes insight into postwar memory culture in West Germany.
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Weaponizing The Past - Collective Memory And Jews, Poles, And Communists In Twenty-First Century Poland

by Kate Korycki

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 Theorizing and explaining the process of collective memory of Polandâ€™s communist past, Weaponizing the Past explores contemporary politicizations of the past, national belonging and the production of anti-Semitism.
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Velvet Retro

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Velvet Retro - Postsocialist Nostalgia And The Politics Of Heroism In Czech Popular Culture

by Veronika Pehe

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 This innovative study develops the concept of â€œretroâ€ to describe the nuanced and ironic depiction of the past as seen in Czech popular culture. It locates a distinctively retro aesthetic in Czech literature, film, and other cultural forms, enriching our understanding of not only the nationâ€™s memory culture, but also the ways in which popular culture can structure collective memory.
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De-Commemoration - Removing Statues And Renaming Places

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 In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance.
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Weaponizing The Past - Collective Memory And Jews, Poles, And Communists In Twenty-First Century Poland

by Kate Korycki

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 Theorizing and explaining the process of collective memory of Polandâ€™s communist past, Weaponizing the Past explores contemporary politicizations of the past, national belonging and the production of anti-Semitism.
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De-Commemoration - Removing Statues And Renaming Places

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 In the wake of recent protests against police violence and racism, calls to dismantle problematic memorials have reverberated around the globe. This is not a new phenomenon, however, nor is it limited to the Anglo-Saxon world. De-Commemoration focuses on the concept of de-commemoration as it relates to remembrance.
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The Right To Memory - History, Media, Law, And Ethics

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 The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.
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Right To Memory - History, Media, Law, And Ethics

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 The Right to Memory looks beyond everyday memory and commemoration practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals.
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