Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories
Basingstoke, Hampshire et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiii, 252 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
ISBN 978-0-230-28336-7 (ebook); 978-0-230-28336-7 (pbk)
"A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies." (Publisher description)
"The majority of essays were first presented in March 2008 at a conference organized by the International Research Institute for Cultural Studies in Vienna (IFK)." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Aleida Assmann and Sebastian Conrad, 1
PART I: WITNESSING IN A GLOBAL ARENA, 17
1 Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations / Christopher Daase, 19
2 Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People / Danielle Celermajer and A. Dirk Moses, 32
PART II: MORAL CLAIMS AND UNIVERSAL NORMS, 59
3 The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America / +Elizabeth Jelin, 61
4 Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide / Berthold Molden, 79
5 The Holocaust - a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community / Aleida Assmann, 97
PART III: GLOBAL MEMORIES AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES, 119
6 Globalization, Universalism, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory / Jan Assmann, 121
7 Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability / Jie-Hyun Lim, 138
8 Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan / Sebastian Conrad, 163
PART IV: GLOBAL ICONS AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS, 179
9 Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar / Grace Bolton and Nerina Muzurovic´, 181
10 'Fragments of Reminiscence': Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory / Ana Sobral, 199
11 Neda - the Career of a Global Icon / Aleida Assmann and Corinna Assmann, 225
PART I: WITNESSING IN A GLOBAL ARENA, 17
1 Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations / Christopher Daase, 19
2 Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People / Danielle Celermajer and A. Dirk Moses, 32
PART II: MORAL CLAIMS AND UNIVERSAL NORMS, 59
3 The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America / +Elizabeth Jelin, 61
4 Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide / Berthold Molden, 79
5 The Holocaust - a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community / Aleida Assmann, 97
PART III: GLOBAL MEMORIES AND TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES, 119
6 Globalization, Universalism, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory / Jan Assmann, 121
7 Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability / Jie-Hyun Lim, 138
8 Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan / Sebastian Conrad, 163
PART IV: GLOBAL ICONS AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS, 179
9 Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar / Grace Bolton and Nerina Muzurovic´, 181
10 'Fragments of Reminiscence': Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory / Ana Sobral, 199
11 Neda - the Career of a Global Icon / Aleida Assmann and Corinna Assmann, 225
