Memory in a global age : discourses, practices and trajectories

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Memory in a global age : discourses, practices and trajectories

edited by Aleida Assmann and Sebastian Conrad

(Palgrave Macmillan memory studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Preface Note on the Contributors Introduction PART I: WITNESSING IN A GLOBAL ARENA Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations
  • C.Daase Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People
  • D.Celermajer & D.Moses PART II: MORAL CLAIMS AND UNIVERSAL NORMS The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America
  • E.Jelin Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide
  • B.Molden The Holocaust - a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community
  • A.Assmann PART III: GLOBAL MEMORIES AND TRANS-NATIONAL IDENTITIES Globalization, Universalization, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory
  • J.Assmann Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability
  • J.H.Lim Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan
  • S.Conrad PART IV: GLOBAL ICONS AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar
  • G.Bolton & N.Muzurovic 'Fragments of Reminiscence': Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory
  • A.Sobral Neda - The Career of a Global Image
  • A.Assmann & C.Assmann

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