Replicating atonement : foreign models in the commemoration of atrocities
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Replicating atonement : foreign models in the commemoration of atrocities
(Palgrave Macmillan memory studies)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection examines what happens when one country's experience of dealing with its traumatic past is held up as a model for others to follow. In regional and country studies covering Argentina, Canada, Japan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Russia, Turkey, the United States and former Yugoslavia, the authors look at the pitfalls, misunderstandings and perverse effects-but also the promise-of trying to replicate atonement. Going beyond the idea of a global or transnational memory, this book examines the significance of foreign models in atonement practices, and analyses the role of national governments, international organisations, museums, foundations, NGOs and public intellectuals in shaping the idea that good practices of atonement can be learned. The volume also demonstrates how one can productively learn from others by appreciating the complex and contested nature of atonement practices such as Germany's, and also by finding the necessary resources in the history of one's own country.
Table of Contents
- 1. Replicating Atonement: The German Model and Beyond
- Mischa Gabowitsch.- Part I Norms and Yardsticks.- 2. A Japan that Cannot Say Sorry?
- Franziska Seraphim.- 3. "Best Practices" of Global Memory and the Politics of Atonement in Lebanon
- Sune Haugbolle.- Part II The European Union and the Politics of Atonement.- 4. Lost in Transaction in Serbia and Croatia: Memory as Trade Currency
- Lea David.- 5. Turkish Vergangenheitsbewaltigung: The Unbearable Burden of the Past
- Ayhan Kaya.- Part III Atonement Models as Springboards.- 6. Which commemorative models help? A case study from post-Yugoslavia
- Jacqueline Niesser.- 7. Coming to terms with the Canadian past: Truth and reconciliation, Indigenous genocide, and the post-war German model
- David B. MacDonald.- Part IV Distorted Representations.- 8. Murambi is not Auschwitz: The Holocaust in representations of the Rwandan genocide
- Malgorzata Wosinska.- 9."Meanwhile in Argentina": Cross-References and Distortions in Latin American Memory Discourses
- Ralph Buchenhorst.- Part V Occidentalist Atonement.- 10. Memorial miracle: Inspiring Vergangenheitsbewaltigung between Berlin and Istanbul
- Alice von Bieberstein.- 11. Mourning and Warning: Soviet Intellectuals and German Atonement
- Mischa Gabowitsch.- Part VI Personal Experiences.- 12. From guilty generation to expert generation? Personal reflections on second post-war generation West German atonement
- Anja Mihr.- 13. Notes After Mississippi
- Susan Neiman.
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