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Aber ich lebe: Vier Kinder überleben den Holocaust. Nach den Erinnerungen von Emmie Arbel, David Schaffer, Nico Kamp und Rolf Kamp
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 175 pp.
"Es gibt kaum noch Zeitzeugen des Holocaust. Die letzten erzählen von ihrer Erinnerung als Kinder in den Konzentrationslagern der Nationalsozialisten und über die Verfolgung und Ermordung ihrer Familien. Um diese Erinnerungen vor dem Vergessen zu bewahren, haben die Zeichnerinnen Barara Yelin, Mir
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The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2023), x, 168 pp.
"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 t
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Collective Memory: Visual Perspectives from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa
München: kopaed; Exploring Visual Cultures project (2022), 160 pp.
"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote
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History Under Attack: Holocaust Denial and Distortion on Social Media
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 68 pp.
"This publication is the first report from UNESCO and the United Nations to specifically address Holocaust denial and distortion. It details the ways in which social media is fertile ground for hate and prejudice - and proposes actions we can take in response. Based on the data of billions of Facebo
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Narrativa transmedia: Una mirada al conflicto armado y la memoria social indígena desde los relatos expandidos. Casos: Colombia y Perú
Contratexto (Universidad de Lima), issue 37 (2022), pp. 259-286
"Este trabajo tiene como objetivo central el análisis de dos proyectos transmedia latinoamericanos en el marco de la no ficción, circunscritos desde el método del estudio de casos y la aplicación de elementos de la teoría del actor-red, donde las relaciones, la conformación de grupos sociales
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Traumatic Past in the Present: COVID-19 and Holocaust Memory in Israeli Media, Digital Media, and Social Media
Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 3 (2022), pp. 464-478
"The COVID-19 pandemic began in 2019, spread to the rest of the world in 2020 and still holds nations in its grip in 2021. There is scant research on the way it has affected Holocaust awareness. Based on scholarly work on Holocaust awareness in Israel, the top-down memory of the Holocaust in the med
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Oralidades y escrituras kichwas
Quito: Abya-Yala; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana (2022), 210 pp.
"Las tensiones entre oralidad y escritura han caracterizado silenciosamente tanto los estudios como los esfuerzos de enseñanza/aprendizaje y de revitalización de las lenguas minorizadas en sus diferentes contextos sociales, culturales, históricos y políticos en la región. Ese tránsito de ida y
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Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 161 pp.
"This book is about postcolonial memory in the Netherlands. This term refers to conflicts in contemporary society about how the colonial past should be remembered. The question is often: who has the right or ability to tell their stories and who do not? In other words: who has a voice, and who is si
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Viewing Photography in Post-Dictatorship Latin America: Visual Interruptions, 1997-2016
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvii, 293 pp.
"This book examines the archival aesthetic of mourning and memory developed by Latin American artists and photographers between 1997-2016. Particular attention is paid to how photographs of the assassinated or disappeared political dissident of the 1970s and 1980s, as found in family albums and in o
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Guía para periodistas: Claves para comunicar el proceso, el informe final y el legado de la Comisión de la Verdad
Bogotá: Comisión de la Verdad; Taller de Edición Rocca (2022), 220 pp.
"Los medios de comunicación son grandes aliados en la sensibilización y apropiación del legado de la Comisión de la Verdad. El Informe Final brinda la oportunidad de difundirlo a través de una variedad de formatos innovadores que vayan más allá del registro de historias. Los contextos explica
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The Nanjing Massacre and the Making of Mediated Trauma
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 235 pp.
"Drawing on cultural trauma theory, this book investigates how collective memory of the Nanjing Massacre [by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945] is fashioned in China and how the mass media, political power and public praxis jointl
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The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People’s Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, volume 51, issue 2 (2022), pp. 194-218
"History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people’s understanding of their nation’s modern history, as revealed on the popular microblogging site SinaWeibo. We analysed
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Memory and Erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe
Bulawayo; Harare: Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE); Weaver Press (2022), xxxi, 153 pp.
"Memory and Erasure brings together young and established Zimbabwean scholars and activists who explore with fresh eyes the failure to overcome the terrible legacies of this period. At its heart is recognition that justice cannot be achieved while Gukurahundi’s perpetrators remain in power and sti
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Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 334 pp.
"This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary appr
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Archives and Human Rights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxi, 330 pp.
"Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? Archives and Human Rights shows the close relationship between archives and human rights and discusses the emergence, at the international level, of the
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Kino und Katharsis? Bilder vom Nationalsozialismus im deutschen Film
In: Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus: Ein Kompendium
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2021), pp. 534-556
Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past
Bristol: Bristol University Press (2021), 116 pp.
"Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They repackage our past content as ‘memories’ and deliver them back to us. But how does that change the way we remember? Drawing on original qualitative research as well as industry documents and reports, this book c
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"This project has explored the ways in which an independent, public service-spirited media could create content about historical issues that avoids playing into propaganda-driven divides, fosters a more constructive discourse around history and brings Ukrainians into a common national conversation.
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Remember Me: Memory and Forgetting in the Digital Age
Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), viii, 155 pp.
"[...] The past does not really exist: it is only a story we tell ourselves. But what happens when we tell this story not only to ourselves but also to our followers, when it is recorded not only on our social media pages but also on the pages of hundreds or thousands of others, making it something
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