Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories

by A. Assmann (Editor), S. Conrad (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230272910
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/21/2010
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Preface ix

Notes on the Contributors x

Introduction Aleida Assmann Sebastian Conrad 1

Part I Witnessing in a Global Arena 17

1 Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations Christopher Daase 19

2 Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People Danielle Celermajer A. Dirk Moses 32

Part II Moral Claims and Universal Norms 59

3 The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America Elizabeth Jelin 61

4 Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide Berthold Molden 79

5 The Holocaust - a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community Aleida Assmann 97

Part III Global Memories and Transnational Identities 119

6 Globalization, Universalism, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory Jan Assmann 121

7 Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability Jie-Hyun Lim 138

8 Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan Sebastian Conrad 163

Part IV Global Icons and Cultural Symbols 179

9 Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar Grace Bolton Nerina Muzurovic 181

10 'Fragments of Reminiscence': Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory Ana Sobral 199

11 Neda - the Career of a Global Icon Aleida Assmann Corinna Assmann 225

Name Index 243

Subject Index 245

Editorial Reviews

'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

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