Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xi, 217 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
ISBN 978-0-230-29233-8 (ebook); 978-1-349-31989-3 (pbk)
"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 the study of memory." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Memory and the Future: Why a Change of Focus is Necessary / Yifat Gutman, Amy Sodaro and Adam D. Brown, 1
PART I: MEMORY THROUGH SPACE AND TIME. THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF MEMORY - HOW MEANINGS AND MODELS TRAVEL THE WORLD
1 Changing Temporalities and the Internationalization of Memory Cultures / Daniel Levy, 15
2 Misremembering the Holocaust: Universal Symbol, Nationalist Icon or Moral Kitsch? / Ross Poole, 31
3 Memory and History from Past to Future: A Dialogue with DorI: Laub on Trauma and Testimony / DorI: Laub and Federico Finchelstein, 50
4 Remembering Yesterday to Protect Tomorrow: The Internationalization of a New Commemorative Paradigm / Louis Bickford and Amy Sodaro, 66
PART II: FORMS AND GENRES. NARRATIVE, ORAL HISTORY AND VISUAL MEMORY - HOW THE FORM SERVES THE AIM
5 The Role of Conversations in Shaping Individual and Collective Memory, Attitudes and Behavior / Jonathan Koppel and William Hirst, 89
6 Re-Presenting Victim and Perpetrator: The Role of Photographs in US Service Members' Testimony Against War / Kimberly Spring, 105
7 How Shall We Remember Srebrenica? Will the Language of Law Structure Our Memory? /Selma Leydesdorff, 121
PART III: TEMPORALITY AND THE POLITICAL I: UTOPIA
8 Refugees from Utopia: Remembering, Forgetting and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project / Ann Snitow, 141
9 Happy Memories under the Mushroom Cloud: Utopia and Memory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee / Lindsey A. Freeman, 158
TEMPORALITY AND THE POLITICAL II: REVENGE
10 Authorizing Death: Memory Politics and States of Exception in Contemporary El Salvador / Gema Santamaria-Balmaceda, 179
11 Memories of War and Enacting the Future at YasukunI: Shrine, Japan / David P. Janes, 195
PART I: MEMORY THROUGH SPACE AND TIME. THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF MEMORY - HOW MEANINGS AND MODELS TRAVEL THE WORLD
1 Changing Temporalities and the Internationalization of Memory Cultures / Daniel Levy, 15
2 Misremembering the Holocaust: Universal Symbol, Nationalist Icon or Moral Kitsch? / Ross Poole, 31
3 Memory and History from Past to Future: A Dialogue with DorI: Laub on Trauma and Testimony / DorI: Laub and Federico Finchelstein, 50
4 Remembering Yesterday to Protect Tomorrow: The Internationalization of a New Commemorative Paradigm / Louis Bickford and Amy Sodaro, 66
PART II: FORMS AND GENRES. NARRATIVE, ORAL HISTORY AND VISUAL MEMORY - HOW THE FORM SERVES THE AIM
5 The Role of Conversations in Shaping Individual and Collective Memory, Attitudes and Behavior / Jonathan Koppel and William Hirst, 89
6 Re-Presenting Victim and Perpetrator: The Role of Photographs in US Service Members' Testimony Against War / Kimberly Spring, 105
7 How Shall We Remember Srebrenica? Will the Language of Law Structure Our Memory? /Selma Leydesdorff, 121
PART III: TEMPORALITY AND THE POLITICAL I: UTOPIA
8 Refugees from Utopia: Remembering, Forgetting and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project / Ann Snitow, 141
9 Happy Memories under the Mushroom Cloud: Utopia and Memory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee / Lindsey A. Freeman, 158
TEMPORALITY AND THE POLITICAL II: REVENGE
10 Authorizing Death: Memory Politics and States of Exception in Contemporary El Salvador / Gema Santamaria-Balmaceda, 179
11 Memories of War and Enacting the Future at YasukunI: Shrine, Japan / David P. Janes, 195
