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Communicating During Humanitarian Medical Crises: The Consequences of Silence or "Témoignage"

Marouf Arif Hasian

Lanham; Boulder; New York: Lexington Books (2019), ix, 294 pp.

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Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice

Sandra Ristovska, Monroe Price (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xvii, 320 pp.

"Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution. The collection argues that accounting for how imag ... more

Formen des Vergessens

Aleida Assmann

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 224 pp.

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Digital Memory Studies: Media Pasts in Transition

Andrew Hoskins (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2018), xii, 313 pp.

"Digital media, networks and archives reimagine and revitalize individual, social and cultural memory but they also ensnare it, bringing it under new forms of control. Understanding these paradoxical conditions of remembering and forgetting through today’s technologies needs bold interdisciplinary ... more

Travellers’ Times 12 Point Guide Produced to Encourage More Accurate and Fairer Reporting on the UK’s Gypsies & Travellers

Hereford: Travellers Times (2018), 5 pp.

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The Trauma Graphic Novel

Andrés Romero-Jódar

New York; London: Routledge (2017), x, 179 pp.

"The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new s ... more

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Digital Trauma Processing in Social Media Groups: Transgenerational Holocaust Trauma on Facebook

Anna Menyhért

Hungarian Historical Review, volume 6, issue 2 (2017), pp. 355-376

"In recent years, more and more social media (Facebook) groups have been created dealing with memories of the Holocaust in Hungary. In this article, I analyze and compare two groups, “The Holocaust and My Family” and “The Descendants of the Victims and Survivors of the Holocaust” in the fram ... more

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Holocaust memory in a globalizing world

Jacob S. Eder, Philipp Gassert, Alan E. Steinweis (eds.)

Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag (2017), 278 pp.

"Remembering the Holocaust is a central part of historical awareness and political culture in reunified Germany, Israel, and the United States. But can the same be said for other parts of the world? How have societies that were not affected by occupation and extermination measures under the Nazi reg ... more

O Holocausto no cinema

Revista do Instituto Humanitas Unisinos, issue 501 (2017), pp. 14-49

Disputed Memory: Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

Tea Sindbæk Andersen, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), vi, 383 pp.

"The world wars, genocides and extremist ideologies of the 20th century are remembered very differently across Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, resulting sometimes in fierce memory disputes. This book investigates the complexity and contention of the layers of memory of the troubled 20th ce ... more

Transiciones, memorias e identidades en Europa y América Latina

Juan Ignacio Piovani, Clara Ruvituso, Nikolaus Werz (eds.)

Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2016), 291 pp.

"El presente volumen recoge diferentes enfoques teóricos y metodológicos sobre las memorias, transiciones políticas e identidades en Alemania, Argentina y España, buscando establecer comparaciones y puntos de convergencia en sociedades signadas durante el siglo XX por regímenes políticos autor ... more

Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information

Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, Rachel Daniell (eds.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2014), viii, 249 pp.

"This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese A ... more

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The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
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Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), xxiv, 544 pp.

"The contributors to this volume consider whether it is possible to establish carefully tailored hate speech policies that are cognizant of the varying traditions, histories, and values of different countries. Throughout, there is a strong comparative emphasis, with examples (and authors) drawn from ... more

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On Media Memory: Collective Memory in a New Media Age

Mordechai Neiger, Oren Meyers, Eyal Zandberg (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xvi, 300 pp.

"This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of Media Memory and brings Media and Mediation to the forefront of Collective Memory research. The essays explore a diversity of media technologies (television, radio, film and new media), genres (news, fiction, documentaries) and contexts (US, UK, Spai ... more

Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives

Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso (eds.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2010), vii, 285 pp.

"The essays collected in this book follow a contemporary critical trend in the field of trauma studies that reflects comparatively on artistic and media representations of traumatic histories and experiences from countries around the world. Focusing on a diversity of art and media forms—including ... more

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Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, and Images

Allen Meek

New York et al.: Routledge (2010), 224 pp.

"This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, explaining how contemporary trauma studies emerged from research on Holocaust representation in which the audiovisual testimony of survivors was pos ... more

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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (eds.)

Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.

"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past ... more

The Continuum Companion to Religion and Film

William L. Blizek (ed.)

London: Continuum (2009), x, 426 pp.

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Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film

Barry Langford, Robert Eaglestone (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2008), xi, 170 pp.

"The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? " (Publisher d ... more

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