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Memoria como recurso en la transformación de conflictos: El papel de medios y periodistas en la construcción de paz. Congreso Internacional, Septiembre 19 al 21 de 2023, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá - Colombia
Bogotá: Instituto Colombo-Alemán para la Paz (CAPAZ) (2024), 69 pp.
"Más allá de ser meramente intermediarios, medios de comunicación, periodistas, comunicadoras y comunicadores sociales construyen narrativas de la memoria y del pasado a través de su labor y prác ticas cotidianas. A través de su trabajo dan contexto a los acontecimientos en perspectiva histór
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Geteilte Geschichte_n – Plurale Solidaritäten: Diskussionen zur Verbindung von verflechtungsgeschichtlichen Ansätzen und community-übergreifenden Unterstützungsstrukturen
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2024), 163 pp.
"Im Sammelband werden Denkanstöße für Möglichkeiten der Pluralisierung und Demokratisierung von Erinnerung und Geschichte gegeben sowie hieran anknüpfende aktuelle Diskurse besprochen und reflektiert. In diesem Zusammenhang wird mit Beiträgen unterschiedlicher transdisziplinärer Autorinnen un
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History’s Future: EVZ Foundation Shapes Digital Culture of Remembrance
Berlin: Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) (2024), 20 pp.
"Forward-looking EVZ projects in the spirit of Culture of Remembrance 4.0 use innovative tools and techniques at sites of remembrance and persecution to link the digital with the analog space. This can open historical layers, make the invisible visible, and appeal to new user groups. Digital exhibit
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Koloniales Erbe verhandeln: Erinnerung und Macht bei der Aufarbeitung der Kolonialvergangenheit in Hamburg
Frankfurt; New York: Campus Verlag (2024), 345 pp.
"Im Sommer 2014 beschloss der Hamburger Senat, die Hansestadt solle als erste Stadt in Deutschland mit der Aufarbeitung ihrer Kolonialvergangenheit beginnen. Das Buch untersucht die Verhandlungen über die Neuausrichtung städtischer Erinnerungspolitik im Rahmen des Runden Tisches "Koloniales Erbe"
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Die unbequeme Vergangenheit: Vom Umgang mit Staatsverbrechen in Russland und anderswo
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2024), 598 pp.
"Die Sowjetdiktatur war von Staatsverbrechen kaum vorstellbaren Ausmaßes geprägt. Insbesondere gilt dies für die Periode von der Oktoberrevolution 1917 bis zum Tod Josef Stalins 1953: Sie umfasst den Bürgerkrieg, die sogenannten Säuberungen, das Gulag-System und zahlreiche weitere Akte massiver
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Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1st ed. (2024), xvii, 242 pp.
"Animated documentaries dealing with the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, and their descendants constitute a new phenomenon and inaugurate a new field of Holocaust commemoration. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries. It explores movies produced in the USA,
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La fiesta de las paces
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes (2024), 305 pp.
"Paz y reconciliación son temas cruciales de nuestra historia. En la coyuntura de análisis y debates, La fiesta de las paces reflexiona sobre la construcción de la paz desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria y, lo que es más importante, desde voces no institucionales. Los autores demuestran que
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Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda
London: Zed Books (2024), xiv, 242 pp.
"In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, politicians and corporations are now spending billions employing Cambridge Analytica-type consultancies to manufacture disinformation - employing trolls, cyborgs and bots to disrupt
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Der Massenmord wird bis heute verdrängt
welt-sichten, 9. Dezember (2024)
"Simbabwes Präsident Emmerson Mnangagwa verspricht, die Massaker an Zehntausenden Ndebele vor rund 40 Jahren aufarbeiten zu lassen. Überlebende dieses sogenannten Gukurahundi sehen dafür nur wenige Anzeichen." (Einführung)
Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 303 pp.
"This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book
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Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2024), xxxii, 244 pp.
"The West German novel, radio play, and television series, Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has been gradually regaining popularity in recent years. Originally circulated in post-war
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The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide
European Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 27, issue 5 (2024), pp. 928-946
"Current discourse on the representation of genocide claims that we are currently experiencing ‘the shift from the era of the witness to the era of the perpetrator’. This raises ethical concerns over why and how documentaries engage with perpetrators. Based on an assessment of 203 documentaries
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Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 316 pp.
"Popular media play an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide the material for playful as well as neo-imperialist and nationalist appropriations of the past. The contributors to the volume investigate this phenome
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Collective Trauma
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 1 (2023), pp. 21-31
"If a society does not come to terms with horrific atrocities of the past, tensions may fast escalate into new strife. People must know the truth. The causes of violence must be spelt out and the perpetrators must be named. Otherwise, a new sense of mutual trust cannot grow. Such trust is needed for
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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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Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xvi, 400 pp.
"Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses a range of techniques, including disputes over numbers, contestation of legal defi
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Education Agenda: NS-Injustice
Berlin: Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) (2023), 44 pp.
"The Education Agenda NS-Injustice started in autumn 2021 with two certainties: Firstly, the survivors are passing away; there are few chances today to meet eyewitnesses who can tell us first-hand about the atrocities committed by the National Socialists. Secondly, we are increasingly entering conte
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Research handbook on transitional justice
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2nd ed. (2023), xxii, 524 pp.
"Providing a refreshing take on transitional justice, this thoroughly revised second edition brings together an expanse of scholarly expertise to reconsider how societies deal with gross human rights violations, structural injustices and mass violence. Contextualised by historical developments, it c
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@ichbinsophiescholl: Darstellung und Diskussion von Geschichte in Social Media
Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2023), 244 pp.
"Was wäre, wenn Sophie Scholl auf Instagram aktiv gewesen wäre? Soziale Medien werden auch zur Vermittlung von Geschichte immer populärer. Eines der jüngsten Beispiele ist das Instagramprojekt @ichbinsophiescholl der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten SWR und BR, das Nutzer:innen an den l
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