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Documenting atrocities around the world: Why engage with the perpetrators?
International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 22, issue 6 (2019), pp. 804-822
"Following a century filled with violations of human rights, a significant number of documentary films have appeared since the first decade of the current century that report these events. Traditionally this process is carried out from the victims’ point of view. However, a new tendency has emerge
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Memória e direitos humanos: Desafios contemporâneos
Porto Alegre: Editora Fi (2019), 262 pp.
Experiences in Oral History: Contemporary Witness Interviews in Archive Organizations and Historical Research
Berlin: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2018), 64 pp.
"The overall aim of the workshop was to promote discussion among the archives on their respective practices, to reflect on the practice of interviewing with the involved historians and, last but not least, to find ways to make better use of the interviews available in the archives [...] The first pa
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Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition
New York; London: Routledge (2018), xii, 313 pp.
"Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through today’s technologies needs bold interdisciplinary
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Who Speaks for the Past? Social Media, Social Memory, and the Production of Historical Knowledge in Contemporary China
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 1675-1695
"This study explores the influence of social media on the (re)formation of social memory and the production of historical knowledge in society. It takes several contested debates over historical events and figures on Weibo, one of the most widely used social media, as the case to investigate how soc
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Illustrated (Hi)stories
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), 207 pp.
"Das Gedenken an den Ersten Weltkrieg in Deutschland und Europa ist nach wie vor sehr auf die europäische Perspektive beschränkt. Tatsächlich war der Krieg ein globaler: Millionen Soldaten aus kolonisierten Gebieten nahmen an den Kämpfen teil. Die Kolonialtruppen bildeten ein wesentliches Elemen
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Die Ursprünge des Kinos in Kamerun: Bewertung und Produktion der ersten deutschen Filme
Goethe-Institut (2018), 6 pp.
"Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es: 1) den Kontext der Einführung des Kinos in Kamerun zu beschreiben und 2) die Produktion und Nutzung deutscher Kinofilme in Kamerun zu erfassen und zu analysieren. Wir werden uns insbesondere mit der Frage der Entstehung des Kinos in Kamerun während der deutschen K
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Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xvii, 320 pp.
"Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution. The collection argues that accounting for how imag
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Das Kongo Tribunal
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 302 pp.
"Seit mehr als 20 Jahren herrscht Bürgerkrieg im Kongo. Über drei Millionen Menschen haben bereits ihr Leben verloren. Der Kampf um Rohstoffe wie Coltan, Zinn und Kupfer, an denen der Ostkongo reich ist, spitzt sich weiter zu. 2015 inszenierte der Schweizer Regisseur und Theaterautor Milo Rau das
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The Perpetrator’s mise-en-scène: Language, Body, and Memory in the Cambodian Genocide
Journal of Perpetrator Research, volume 2, issue 1 (2018), pp. 65-94
"Rithy Panh’s film 'S-21. The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine' (2003) was the result of a three-year shooting period in the Khmer Rouge centre of torture where perpetrators and victims exchanged experiences and re-enacted scenes from the past under the gaze of the filmmaker’s camera. Yet, a crucial
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The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.
"The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses
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Development Vs Peace? The Role of Media in the Law of Victims and Land Restitution in Colombia
Media, War & Conflict, volume 11, issue 3 (2018), pp. 336-357
"The Law of Victims and Land Restitution, ratified in June 2011 and enforced since January 2012, constitutes an unprecedented attempt to end armed conflict in Colombia by applying a transitional justice framework and fostering rural development. Drawing on a methodology that integrates framing and r
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Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2018), xviii, 348 pp.
"What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? In the charged political terrain of post-genocide Rwanda, post-civil war Uganda, and recent violence in the Democratic Republic of
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"Las historietas y las novelas gráficas se han convertido no sólo en fuente de entretenimiento, sino también en objeto de estudio en el contexto latinoamericano, por lo menos desde la publicación del famoso Para leer al Pato Donald de Ariel Dorfman y Armand Mattelart, en 1972. Recientemente, est
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The Oral History Manual
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. (2018), viii, 145 pp.
"The Oral History Manual is designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle – t
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Die Deutschen und ihre Kolonien: Ein Überblick
Berlin: be.bra Verlag, Sonderausg. (2018), 352 pp.
"Zwischen 1884 und 1914 besaß Deutschland ein Kolonialreich, das von Togo in Westafrika bis zu den Inseln Samoas im Pazifik reichte. Dieses Buch bietet einen kenntnisreichen und allgemeinverständlichen Überblick über das kurzlebige deutsche Kolonialabenteuer. Es informiert über die politischen
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