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Twenty Years After 'Leave None to Tell the Story', What Do We Now Know About the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda?
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 2, issue 2 (2020), pp. 40-47
"In 1999, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) published an extensive account of genocide in Rwanda, Leave None to Tell the Story. Based on interviews and archival work conducted by a team of researchers and written primarily by Alison Des Forges, Leave N
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"Video Unavailable": Social Media Platforms Remove Evidence of War Crimes
New York: Human Rights Watch (2020), 94 pp.
"Social media platforms are taking down “terrorist and violent extremist content” more and more quickly, often in response to the demands of governments, but in a way that prevents the content from being used to support investigations into serious crimes, including war crimes. “Video Unavailab
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Transcribing Oral History
New York: Routledge (2020), xix, 207 pp.
"Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct and transcribe interviews, the book goes on t
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History in Games: Contingencies of an Authentic Past
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2020), 280 pp.
"Where do we end up when we enter the time machine that is the digital game? One axiomatic truth of historical research is that the past is the time-space that eludes human intervention. Every account made of the past is therefore only an approximation. But how is it that strolling through ancient A
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Journalism and Memory
"The aim of this chapter is to consider the past, present, and future of journalism and memory in two senses: first, as time periods in the evolution of this area of research and, second, as thematic elements in the scholarship on journalism and memory. In other words, how does journalism address so
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Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxi, 345 pp.
"Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationship
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Sharing the Burden of Stories from the Tutsi Genocide. Rwanda: Écrire par Devoir de Mémoire
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xii, 300 pp.
"This book deals with literary representations of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Its focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. Anna-Marie
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Lest We Forget = Gegen das Vergessen
Heidelberg: Gegen das Vergessen (2020)
"LEST WE FORGET is a project by the German-Italian photographer and filmmaker Luigi Toscano under the patronage of the German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. In 2014, he started traveling in order to meet Holocaust survivors who are now living in the US, Germany, the Netherlands, Belarus, Ukraine, Isra
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Intermediality in the Visualization of Peace: Contradicting Narratives About Peace and Violence in Timor-Leste
Peace & Change, volume 45, issue 1 (2020), pp. 78-100
"The documentary dalan ba dame was produced by the East Timorese Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (Comissao de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliaao de Timor-Leste, CAVR) and covers the twenty-four years of Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste, during which nearly one quarter of the
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Melodrama and Public Pedagogy: The Construction of Memory from Television Fiction
Comunicación y Sociedad, issue e7362 (2020), pp. 1-19
"This article presents the main results of a research project that aims to analyze the construction of cultural memory through fictional series that represented the dictatorship period of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Based on interviews and focus groups with young people between 18 and 24 years old wh
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
New York: Columbia University Press (2020), xxii, 285 pp.
"Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting
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La vida se hace historia
Punto de Encuentro (Signis ALC), volume 10, issue 131 (2020), pp. 3-30
Trauma Reporting: A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories
Key Guides
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xii, 205 pp.
Trauma Reporting provides vital information on developing a healthy, professional and respectful relationship with those who choose to tell their stories during times of trauma, distress or grief. Amid a growing demand and need for guidance, this fascinating book is refreshingly simple, engaging and
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Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age: Memorialization Unmoored
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xviii, 246 pp.
"This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence is memorialized in today's decentralized, digital era. The book enhances our understanding of how the digital turn is changing the ways that we remember, interpret, and memorialize the past. It also raises practical and ethical quest
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Vergeben und vergessen? Erinnerungskultur
iz3w, issue 373 (2019), pp. 16-37
"In den 1980er Jahren verstärkte sich das Unbehagen an der Gedenkkultur mit ihren Heldenerzählungen und nationalen Beschränkungen. Mit der größeren Komplexität des Gedenkens und der Hinwendung zu den sozialen Kosten historischer Ereignisse prägte sich eine neue Erinnerungskultur aus. Diese is
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Memories of Gukurahundi Massacre and the Challenge of Reconciliation
Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, volume 45, issue 1 (2019), 14 pp.
"When Zimbabwe attained her independence from colonial powers in 1980, prospects of a peaceful nation were high, especially following the pledge made by the Prime Minister Elect in his victory speech. Isaiah 2:4b was quoted as a metaphor of peace, but things did not turn out as expected in the follo
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The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels: Considering the Role of Kitsch
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), ix, 230 pp.
"This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In response to the predominantly negative readings of kitsch as meaningless or in
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