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Author:   A. Assmann ,  S. Conrad
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.465kg
ISBN:  

9780230272910

ISBN 10:   0230272916
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   21 July 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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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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'A serious, scholarly and essential intervention into memory studies. Using the lens of globalization, the book clearly shows how memory should be understood dynamically beyond states and nations. A lively and rich range of original work by leading scholars in the field.' - Dr Anna Reading, London South Bank University, UK

'A serious, scholarly and essential intervention into memory studies. Using the lens of globalization, the book clearly shows how memory should be understood dynamically beyond states and nations. A lively and rich range of original work by leading scholars in the field.' - Dr Anna Reading, London South Bank University, UK

'A serious, scholarly and essential intervention into memory studies. Using the lens of globalization, the book clearly shows how memory should be understood dynamically beyond states and nations. A lively and rich range of original work by leading scholars in the field.' - Dr Anna Reading, London South Bank University, UK

Author Information

CORINNA ASSMANN MA in English and German Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany JAN ASSMANN Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at Heidelberg University and Professor Hon. at Konstanz University, Germany GRACE BOLTON MPhil Candidate in International Relations at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK DANIELLE CELERMAJER Director of European Union funded project Asia Pacific Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation CHRISTOPHER DAASE Chair for International Organization at the University of Frankfurt, Germany ELIZABETH JELIN Senior Researcher of Sociology at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina JIE-HYUN LIM Professor of Modern History at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea BERTHOLD MOLDEN Coordinating Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres in Vienna, Austria A. DIRK MOSES Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia NERINA MUZUROVIC PhD Candidate at the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, USA ANA SOBRAL PhD Candidate at the University of Konstanz, Germany

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