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Author:   Yifat Gutman ,  Adam D. Brown ,  Amy Sodaro
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780230247406

ISBN 10:   0230247407
Pages:   217
Publication Date:   06 October 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Note on the Contributors Introduction: Memory and the Future: Why a Change of Focus is Necessary; Y.Gutman, A.Sodaro &  A.D.Brown PART 1: MEMORY THROUGH SPACE AND TIME The Internationalization of Memory - How Meanings and Models Travel the World Changing Temporalities and the Internationalization of Memory Cultures; D.Levy Misremembering the Holocaust; R.Poole Memory and History from Past to Future: A Dialogue with Dori Laub on Trauma and Testimony; A Conversation Between Dori Laub and Federico Finchelstein Remembering Yesterday to Protect Tomorrow: How the Current Paradigm of Memorialization Relies on Assumptions about the Relationship between Past and Future; L.Bickford Part 2: FORMS AND GENRES Narrative, Oral History and Visual Memory - How the Form Serves the Aim The Role of Conversations in Shaping Individual and Collective Memory, Attitudes and Behavior; J.Koppel  & W.Hirst Re-Presenting Victim and Perpetrator: The Role of Photographs in US Service Members' Testimony Against War; K.Spring How Shall We Remember Srebrenica? Will the Language of Law Structure our Memory?; S.Leydesdorff PART 3: TEMPORALITY AND THE POLITICAL Temporality and the Political I: Utopia Refugees from Utopia: Remembering, Forgetting, and the Making of the Feminist Memoir Project; A.Snitow Happy Memories under the Mushroom Cloud: Utopia and Memory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; L.Freeman Temporality and the Political II: Revenge Authorizing Death: Memory Politics and States of Exception in Contemporary El Salvador; G.Santamaria-Balmaceda Enacting Past and Future at Yasukuni Shrine, Japan; D.P.Janes Afterword: J.Olick Index

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'This important collection...reminds the field that the future is as important as the past and the present.' Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts

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LOUIS BICKFORD Lecturer at The New School and New York University, USA FEDERICO FINCHELSTEIN Assistant Professor of History at The New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College, USA LINDSEY A. FREEMAN PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research, USA WILLIAM HIRST Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research, USA DAVID JANES University in Exile Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research, USA JONATHAN KOPPEL PhD Candidate in Cognitive Psychology at The New School for Social Research, USA DORI LAUB Clinical Professor of Psychology at Yale University School of Medicine, USA DANIEL LEVY Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University, New York, USA SELMA LEYDESDORFF Professor of Oral History and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ROSS POOLE Lecturer in the Departments of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, USA GEMA SANTAMARIA-BALMACEDA PhD Candidate in Sociology at The New School for Social Research, USA ANN SNITOW Director of the Gender Studies Program at The New School, USA KIMBERLY SPRING PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at The New School for Social Research, USA

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