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Research Methods for Memory Studies
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2013), vi, 256 pp.
"This guide provides students and researchers with a clear set of outlines and discussions of particular methods of research in memory studies. It offers not only expert appraisals of a range of techniques, approaches and perspectives in memory studies, but also focuses on key questions of methodolo
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Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity
Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601
"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1
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Silence or Outrage: How South East Europe’s Media Deal with the Past
KAS International Reports, issue 4 (2013), pp. 60-74
"Coming to terms with a country’s political past is closely linked to the mass media, as they are the key to changing public opinion. It is only with their support that a general acceptance of democratic structures, not to mention a new perception of history, can be achieved. In South East Europe,
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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.
"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are
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Memory and Political Change
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.
"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." (
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Balkan Memories: Media Constructions of National and Transnational History
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2012), 270 pp.
Bilder, die Geschichte schrieben: 1900 bis heute
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2011), 296 pp.
Media and Memory
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2011), vii, 174 pp.
"How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers analyses of representations of memorable events, media tools for remembering and forgetting, media technologies for archivin
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The Collective Memory Reader
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2011), xviii, 497 pp.
"The Collective Memory Reader presents, organizes, and evaluates past work and contemporary contributions on collective memory. Combining seminal texts, hard-to-find classics, previously untranslated references, and contemporary landmarks, it will serve as a key reference in the field. In addition t
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On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xvi, 300 pp.
"This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spai
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The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals
New York, NY: Routledge (2011), xv, 245 pp.
Memory in Culture
Houndmills; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), ix, 209 pp.
"This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary m
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Gedächtnis und Erinnerung: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch
Stuttgart; Weimar: Metzler (2010), ix, 364 pp.
"Die gesamte Bandbreite der Gedächtnisforschung. Ausgehend von den neurologischen und psychologischen Grundlagen betrachtet das Handbuch die vielfältigen Formen des Gedächtnisses darunter das autobiografische, das kollektive, das kommunikative und das soziale Gedächtnis. Einen weiteren Schwerpun
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Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories
Basingstoke, Hampshire et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiii, 252 pp.
"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
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Right to memory
Media Development, volume 57, issue 2 (2010), pp. 3-59
"How reliable are the mass media’s stories and images of yesterday let alone of the more remote past? Only by rigorously cross-checking different sources of public or cultural memory might one reach a point that is reasonably balanced and accurate – an exercise in triangulating memory’s ever
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Gerücht und Revolution: Von der Macht des Weitererzählens
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) (2010), 288 pp.
"Warum finden Revolutionen statt? Jahrzehnte der Forschung haben uns kaum weitergebracht, wenn es darum geht, wo, wann und in welchen Milieus sie vorkommen. In diesem bahnbrechenden Buch erläutert Eric Selbin, dass wir über die ökonomischen, politischen und sozialen Strukturen hinausblicken sollt
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Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xi, 217 pp.
"For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into th
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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation
Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.
"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past
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La vida cotidiana: El lugar de la memoria colectiva
Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura (2009), 34 pp.
Media Witnessing: Testimony in the Age of Mass Communication
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), 242 pp.
"From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader impl
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