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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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Trauma, Memory and Religion
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 4, issue 1 (2018), pp. 7-77
"How can we screen trauma? This question might lead the perception of documentary movies about atrocities in the 20th and 21st centuries, like S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (Rithy Panh, CAMB/FR 2003) about Cambodia, The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer, ID/DK 2014) about Indonesia or Das Ra
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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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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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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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Formen des Vergessens
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 224 pp.
"Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Dominanz der Auseinandersetzung mit Erinnerung haben wir das Vergessen anscheinend vergessen. Tatsächlich ist aber nicht das Erinnern, sondern das Vergessen der Grundmodus menschlichen und gesellschaftlichen Lebens. Für das Erinnern bedarf es einer aktiven Anstrengun
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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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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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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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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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El arte desde el pasado fracturado peruano
Lima: IEP Ediciones (2018), 343 pp.
"La Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación no solo documentó la violencia política de las décadas del ochenta y noventa, sino que también le dio a los peruanos una oportunidad única para examinar las causas y la naturaleza de esa violencia. En El arte después de un pasado fracturado peruano, ac
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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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Filmische Zeugenschaft im Abseits: Kulturelle Dekolonisierungsprozesse und Dokumentarfilme zwischen Mosambik und Portugal
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 284 pp.
"Wie wird koloniale Gewalt historisch thematisiert? Wie gehen dokumentarische Filme und geschichtspolitische Diskurse mit ihr um? Robert Stock nähert sich diesen Fragen mit kritischem Blick auf den Kolonialkrieg Portugals in Afrika und den nationalen Befreiungskampf Mosambiks. Dabei fokussiert er s
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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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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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O Holocausto no cinema
Revista do Instituto Humanitas Unisinos, issue 501 (2017), pp. 14-49
Holocaust memory in a globalizing world
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2017), 278 pp.
"Remembering the Holocaust is a central part of historical awareness and political culture in reunified Germany, Israel, and the United States. But can the same be said for other parts of the world? How have societies that were not affected by occupation and extermination measures under the Nazi reg
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