Overview
- Explores how popular cultural artifacts
- Unpacks the influence or role of the global powers in conflict in the Global South
- Conveys transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Memoryscapes: Theory and Practice
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Mediating Genocide
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Gender and Memory
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mphathisi Ndlovu is a research fellow at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Mphathisi is also an Associate Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe). He is also an alumnus of the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) fellowship at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Mphathisi holds a PhD in Journalism from Stellenbosch University. His research interests are in collective memory, identity politics and digital cultures. Mphathisi’s works have been published as book chapters, and peer reviewed articles in journals such as Digital Journalism, African Cultural Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, and Nations and Nationalism. Mphathisi is also co-editor of a book titled The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces: Genealogies, Discourses and EpistemicStruggles (2022).
Lungile Augustine Tshuma holds a PhD in Journalism from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a Senior PostDoctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Lungile is also an Associate Professor in the department of Journalism and Media Studies at the National University of Science and Technology (Zimbabwe). His research interests are in journalism, photography and memory. He has published in local and international peer reviewed journals and among them are: African Journalism Studies, Nations and Nationalism, Media Culture and Society, and Journal of Communication Inquiry.
Shepherd Mpofu is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of South Africa. He has published several articles on communication, media and journalism in Africa. His body of work covers social media and politics; social media and identity; social media and protests. He is the co-editor of New Journalism Ecologies in East and Southern Africa: Innovations, Participatory and Newsmaking Cultures (Palgrave 2023); Decolonising Media and Communication Studies Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (Routledge 2023) and Mediating Xenophobia In Africa (Palgrave 2020). He is editor of The Politics Of Laughter In The Social Media Age: Perspectives From The Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and Digital Humour In The COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives From The Global South (Palgrave Macmillan 2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa
Editors: Mphathisi Ndlovu, Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Shepherd Mpofu
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39892-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39891-9Published: 29 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39894-0Due: 29 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39892-6Published: 28 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Memory Studies, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Studies, International Relations