"El presente volumen recoge diferentes enfoques teóricos y metodológicos sobre las memorias, transiciones políticas e identidades en Alemania, Argentina y España, buscando establecer comparaciones y puntos de convergencia en sociedades signadas durante el siglo XX por regímenes políticos autor
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itarios y procesos de democratización paradigmáticos. Privilegia la reflexión a partir de fuentes orales, indagación en archivos, sitios de memoria y otros documentos como representaciones literarias y cinematográficas." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"La presente Guía General de Maestros y Maestras es, ante todo, un documento de apoyo para acompañar a niñas, niños y jóvenes en un viaje por la memoria histórica del conflicto armado colombiano. Para tal efecto, ofrece información clave para que las y los profesores aprovechen al máximo los
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contenidos pedagógicos plasmados en el marco conceptual y los textos dirigidos a los y las estudiantes. Así mismo, expone los objetivos del proyecto y las competencias que se espera desarrollar con el uso de estos materiales, al igual que las herramientas necesarias para alcanzar unos y otras. Ante todo, la ruta de la memoria histórica fomenta: La conexión entre las experiencias y memorias personales de los y las estudiantes; El desarrollo de empatía para escuchar activamente a las víctimas del conflicto armado; El discernimiento moral a partir de sembrar el hábito de medir las posibles consecuencias que nuestras decisiones y acciones pueden desencadenar en nuestras propias vidas, así como sobre la vida de otras personas a partir del planteamiento de dilemas cotidianos; La reflexión y análisis sobre acontecimientos históricos y procesos desde el rigor lógico y metodológico, así como la identificación y el examen de múltiples fuentes desde una perspectiva crítica." (Página 6)
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"The paper analyses articles from the Russian language newspaper “Vesti Segodnya”, which are devoted to the war in Ukraine. The paper consists of two parts. The first part of this paper explains how the conceptualization of the information warfare has evolved during the second half of the 20th c
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entury and how the term “information warfare” is defined in Russia. Then, by looking at the theoretical foundations of collective memory, it demonstrates how collective memory has been incorporated into news stories to create resonance with current events in Ukraine. It is concluded that the usage of collective memory can be identified in articles devoted to the war in Ukraine to resonate with conflict in eastern Ukraine." (Abstract)
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"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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"Millionen Soldaten aus Afrika, Asien und Ozeanien haben im Zweiten Weltkrieg gekämpft, um die Welt vom deutschen und italienischen Faschismus sowie vom japanischen Großmachtwahn zu befreien. Allein Indien stellte 2,5 Millionen Kolonialsoldaten und China hatte mehr Opfer zu beklagen als Deutschlan
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d, Italien und Japan zusammen. Sowohl die faschistischen Achsenmächte als auch die Alliierten rekrutierten in ihren Kolonien Hilfstruppen und Hilfsarbeiter oftmals mit Gewalt. Japanische Militärs verschleppten zudem Hunderttausende Frauen aus Asien und von pazifischen Inseln in ihre Frontbordelle. Rekruten aus den Kolonien, ob Freiwillige oder Zwangsverpflichtete, mussten sich mit weniger Sold, schlechteren Unterkünften und geringeren Kriegsrenten als ihre «weißen Kameraden» zufrieden geben. Weite Teile der Dritten Welt – von Nordafrika über den Nahen Osten und Indien bis nach Südostasien und Ozeanien – dienten auch als Schlachtfelder und blieben nach Kriegsende verwüstet und vermint zurück. Bei der Befreiung der philippinischen Hauptstadt Manila von den japanischen Besatzern starben mehr Zivilisten als in Berlin, Dresden oder Köln. Die Kolonien der kriegführenden Mächte mussten zudem Nahrungs mittel für die kämpfenden Truppen und Rohstoffe für die Rüstungsproduktion liefern. Oft hungerte deshalb die einheimische Bevölkerung. Auch das NS-Regime bezog kriegswichtiges Material aus den Kolonien in Afrika und Indochina, die unter der Kontrolle der französischen Kollaborationsregierung in Vichy standen. Die Nazis wollten nach der Unterwerfung Osteuropas zudem ein Kolonialreich in Zentralafrika erobern und über Nordafrika in den Nahen Osten vor - stoßen. Auch Hunderttausende Juden in dieser Region mussten deshalb um ihr Leben fürchten. 1942 landete ein SS-Kommando in Tunesien, das die Juden in Palästina vernichten sollte. Noch im chinesischen Schanghai sahen sich Zehntausende jüdische Flüchtlinge von Gestapo-Verfolgern bedroht. In der Dritten Welt gab es allerdings nicht nur Opfer, sondern auch Kollaborateure der faschistischen Achsenmächte, die im Krieg an deren Seite kämpften – von Nordafrika und Palästina über den Irak und Indien bis nach Thailand und Indonesien. Die Unterrichtsmaterialien enthalten Hintergrundtexte, historische Quellen und Berichte von Zeitzeugen zu diesen und weiteren Folgen des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Afrika, Asien und Ozeanien. Fotogalerien, Zeittafeln, Karten und persönliche Erinnerungen von Kriegsteilnehmern erleichtern den Einstieg ins Thema. Im Anhang werden Vorschläge zur Unterrichtsgestaltung gemacht und weiterführende Themen erläutert (wie z.B. Kolonialgeschichte, Rassismus, Frauen im Krieg und Judenverfolgung außerhalb Europas). Die (Wander-) Ausstellung und die Internetseite zum Thema (www.3www2.de) werden vorgestellt sowie empfehlenswerte Bücher, Filme und Radiosendungen. Die Materialien sind nicht nur im Geschichtsunterricht verwendbar, sondern auch in Fächern wie Politik, Sozialkunde, Philosophie, Ethik, Geographie und Religion." (Buchrücken)
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"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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n, Nigeria, Germany and the Middle East)." (Publisher description)
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"Jahre nach dem Bürgerkrieg regiert in einem fiktiven Land Lateinamerikas das Vergessen. Die alten Sprachen sind verboten, Ortsnamen durch Zahlen ersetzt, die Erinnerungen an die Besiegten ausradiert. Norma aber leistet mit ihrer unverwechselbaren Stimme subtilen Widerstand als Moderatorin der Send
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ung Lost City Radio, in der Zuhörer nach Vermissten suchen können. Eines Tages taucht im Sender ein Junge aus einem Urwalddorf mit einer Liste Verschollenen und Getöteter auf, auf der auch der Name von Normas verschwundenem Mann steht." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence
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s that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East and Africa. These essays show that silence is a powerful language of remembrance and commemoration and a cultural practice with its own rules. This broad-ranging book discloses the universality of silence in the ways we think about war through examples ranging from the Spanish Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Armenian Genocide and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Bringing together scholarship on varied practices in different cultures, this book breaks new ground in the vast literature on memory, and opens up new avenues of reflection and research on the lingering aftermath of war." (Publisher description)
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"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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? In this important volume, leading anthropologists consider such questions about the relationship of genocide, truth, memory, and representation in the Balkans, East Timor, Germany, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, and other locales. Specialists on the societies about which they write, these anthropologists draw on ethnographic research to provide on-the-ground analyses of communities in the wake of mass brutality. They investigate how mass violence is described or remembered, and how those representations are altered by the attempts of others, from NGOs to governments, to assert "the truth" about outbreaks of violence. One contributor questions the neutrality of an international group monitoring violence in Sudan and the assumption that such groups are, at worst, benign. Another examines the consequences of how events, victims, and perpetrators are portrayed by the Rwandan government during the annual commemoration of that country's genocide in 1994. Still another explores the silence around the deaths of between eighty and one hundred thousand people on Bali during Indonesia's state-sponsored anticommunist violence of 1965-1966, a genocidal period that until recently was rarely referenced in tourist guidebooks, anthropological studies on Bali, or even among the Balinese themselves. Other contributors consider issues of political identity and legitimacy, coping, the media, and "ethnic cleansing." (Publisher description)
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"Sorensen investigates the manner in which Chilean media and public culture discuss human rights violations committed during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) as well as human rights problems which still exist." (Publisher description)
"The role of historical memory and of cultural remembrance in societies dealing with dramatic transformations and, at times, traumatic pasts are numerous. In this conference, we will look at post-apartheid South Africa and reunified German society, how each country views itself, as well as the diffe
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rences and similarities in their approach to interrogating and confronting the past. The Afro-German dialogue looks at the politics of remembrance and current practices in the process of historical remembrance: How do we remember and how do we process these memories? What versions of the past exist and what versions are negotiated by society and the political arena? What role does the question concerning the future form or common vision of a society play in shaping today’s politics of remembrance? Representatives from the academic world, civil society, the media and culture will be discussing the potential for integration and reconciliation within the contemporary cultures of remembrance in South Africa and Germany." (Introduction)
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"The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? " (Publisher d
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"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil
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thesis), or as obedient to authority and conforming to social pressures (the situationist thesis). No monsters here, just ordinary people under rather extraordinary circumstances. The moral message: we co uld all potentially become perpetrators, depending on the situation. There is a competing view: the perpetrator as a willing, even eager, executioner driven by strong negative emotions against the ‘other’. The scholarly world presents us with antagonistic perspectives. What picture do we get from narrative approaches, from stories told by those actually responsible for politically-related violence? First, there are only a few narrative studies. Second, they also paint competing pictures. On the one hand, is a picture of the perpetrator as a victim – of organisational routines, hierarchies, pressures and secrecy, and of dominant ideologies, as well as brutal initiation rites which instil the practice of obedience to authority. These narrative studies support the situationist and ordinary person line of explanation. They also correct the erstwhile neglect of gender issues by placing emphasis on masculinity as an important ingredient. On the other hand, the South African storytelling studies by Marks (2001), Straker (1992) and Campbell (1992) throw up a different picture. While victims in one sense – of Bantu education, poverty and violence at the hands of both state security agents and older vigilante groups – they are also action-oriented moral crusaders in defence of their communities and in politically-minded offensive against the apartheid state and its allies. Once again, we have contrasting and competing pictures of those responsible for political violence. In these particular storytelling perspectives, differences are partly due to the different positions of protagonists across the dividing line of power: state security personnel on the one hand and resistance activists on the other. Apart from the conflicting images from varying epistemological perspectives and different theoretical angles, the very label or category of a ‘perpetrator’ is more muddied, contested and problematic than a first glance would suggest. We described seven grey areas which challenge or disrupt the dominant binaries of victim-perpetrator and the triangular view of dramatis personae: perpetrator – ‘victim’ – bystander/observer. Moreover, in Chapter 4, we raise a number of moral quandaries or dilemmas in the study of those responsible for violence, which again dislodge the simple and tidy categories. Therefore a central component of the present study aims to problematise and disrupt the complacency of the very label and category of ‘perpetrator’. What should be done? In the face of these competing images and explanations we carve out a ‘third space’ beyond, or perhaps better, between the theoretical antagonisms of situationism versus agency (willing killers); among the grey areas between category labels of victim/perpetrator/bystander. Rather than this being seen as an alternative position, it should be read as an attempt at synthesis. Instead of the oppositional pairing of ‘either-or’, it should be seen in terms of the inclusive pairing ‘both-and’ (Foster, 1999).We argue that those responsible for violence should be regarded as potentially both victim and perpetrator, as well as both subject to circumstances/influences and active initiators." (Conclusion, page 321-322)
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"Um die Ansätze und Erkenntnisse der unterschiedlichen Forschungsrichtungen zusammenzuführen, präsentiert dieses interdisziplinäre Lexikon das weite Feld der Gedächtnicforschung in seiner historischen und theoretischen Vielfalt. Mit über 450 Artikeln deckt es die Disziplinen ab, in denen die P
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hänomene Gedächtnis und Erinnerung untersucht werden: Kulturwissenschaften, Medientheorie, Neurobiologie, Pädagogik, Philosophie und Psychologie." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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