ISBN:
9786612997365
,
9780230283367
,
9781282997363
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIII, 252 S.)
,
Ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Memory in a Global Age
DDC:
303.48/201
Keywords:
Memory Social aspects
;
Collective memory
;
Globalization Social aspects
Abstract:
A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Witnessing in a Global Arena; 1 Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations; 2 Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People; Part II: Moral Claims and Universal Norms; 3 The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America; 4 Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide; 5 The Holocaust - a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III: Global Memories and Transnational Identities6 Globalization, Universalism, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory; 7 Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability; 8 Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan; Part IV: Global Icons and Cultural Symbols; 9 Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar; 10 'Fragments of Reminiscence': Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory; 11 Neda - the Career of a Global Icon; Name Index; Subject Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
Volltext
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