ISBN:
9780230363304
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 196 S.
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Ill.
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
DDC:
940.5318
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychological aspects
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas (Berlin, Germany)
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Mediation
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Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Vermittlung
Abstract:
Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin offers a novel approach to the memorial and its study through the focus on performances. Based on extensive ethnographic research, and drawing on dramaturgic theory, memory studies and theories of the public sphere, the book offers a fresh theorization of memorial experience by analyzing interaction between guides, memorial workers and visitors. Moving away from models of postmemory and post trauma approaches, the book recognizes the precariousness and variation of memory work done at the memorial through the ways visitors engages with the act of remembrance rather than with its object, namely the history of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. This engagement explores how visitors present and perform their 'moral career' at the site, whose codes have been shaped by knowledge about and visits in this and other sites of Holocaust remembrance--Back cover
Abstract:
Analyzing action at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, this first ethnography of the site offers a fresh approach to studying the memorial and memory work as potential civic engagement of visitors with themselves and others rather than with history itself
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 181 - 190
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Description based upon print version of record
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41421
