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Nosotros, Colombia ... Comunicación, paz y (pos)conflicto
Chía: Universidad de La Sabana; Editorial EAFIT (2019), 279 pp.
"La paz parece haber sido esquiva en la historia de Colombia. Los vaivenes en los procesos de negociación, las promesas incumplidas y la polarización política han hecho de Colombia una nación en un estado de continua crisis y que, a pesar de sí misma —retomando la vieja frase de Bushnell— h
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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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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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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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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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Training journalists in times of transition: The case of Kosovo
Journalism Education, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 37-47
"With Kosovo as its case, this article explores the context and challenges of journalism education in transition societies. Journalists in Kosovo have lived through constant changes from authoritarian to democracy. In this struggle, journalism education has never been stable and steady. The past con
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Das Theater der Unterdrückten und Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung in Afghanistan: Kollektive Ermächtigung und neue Dependenzen
Peripherie, volume 37, issue 1 (2017), pp. 52-75
"Seit März 2007 organisieren lokale und internationale Aktivist*innen in verschiedenen Teilen Afghanistans beinah täglich Aktivitäten mit den unterschiedlichen Techniken des Theaters der Unterdrückten (TdU) des Brasilianers Augusto Boal (1931-2009) sowie anderen emanzipatorischen Theatermethoden
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Digital Trauma Processing in Social Media Groups: Transgenerational Holocaust Trauma on Facebook
Hungarian Historical Review, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 355-376
"In recent years, more and more social media (Facebook) groups have been created dealing with memories of the Holocaust in Hungary. In this article, I analyze and compare two groups, “The Holocaust and My Family” and “The Descendants of the Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust” in the fram
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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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A Conceptual Framework for Dealing with the Past
Bern: Swiss Peace Foundation (2016), 20 pp.
"During political system change and for coming to terms with conflicts, media are the most important mediators. They should help with making the past more transparent, in order to support the transition to democracy. Experts of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the international “Article 10 ECHR
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Media and Transitional Justice: A Dream of Symbiosis in a Troubled Relationship
New York: International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) (2016), 18 pp.
"Arriving at a collective memory of the past is one of the greatest challenges facing a post-conflict society because it implies reaching a degree of consensus in a polarized context. While truth commissions attempt to present an objective account of the events of a society’s repressive or violent
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Survival Media: The Politics and Poetics of Mobility and the War in Sri Lanka
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 133 pp.
"Through the narratives and movements of survivors of the war in Lanka these interconnected essays develop the concept of 'survival media' as embodied and expressive forms of mobility across borders." (Publisher description)
Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice
Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.
"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al
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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2014), viii, 249 pp.
"This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese A
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