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Der Massenmord wird bis heute verdrängt
welt-sichten, 9. Dezember (2024)
"Simbabwes Präsident Emmerson Mnangagwa verspricht, die Massaker an Zehntausenden Ndebele vor rund 40 Jahren aufarbeiten zu lassen. Überlebende dieses sogenannten Gukurahundi sehen dafür nur wenige Anzeichen." (Einführung)
La historia oral en Argentina y Latinoamérica
Mar del Plata: Facundo Felipe De Feudis Taboada; Teseopress (2024), 653 pp.
"Este libro reúne un conjunto de investigaciones que desde diferentes perspectivas, problemáticas y objetos de estudio hacen uso de la oralidad para la escritura de la historia. Es fruto del trabajo realizado en el XV Encuentro Nacional y IX Congreso Internacional de Historia Oral. Pasado, present
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"Despite their differences, both Kosovo and North Macedonia have shared challenges with regards to reporting about the past. Problems with violence and trust building in the communities is a field of reporting that does not often go beyond borders of ethnicity and political landscape. Reaching acros
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Fotogeschichten und Geschichtsbilder: Aneignung und Umdeutung historischer Fotografien in Tansania
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2023), 393 pp.
"In Tansania etablierten sich seit der Unabhängigkeit des Landes neue und eigenständige Praktiken in der Verwendung kolonialer Hinterlassenschaften. Ausgehend von den aktuellen Gebrauchsweisen dreier Fotografien aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert zeigt Eliane Kurmann, wie Tansanierinn
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Really?! Sophie Scholl on Instagram: An Analysis of the Journalistic Discourse
Journalism Research, volume 6, issue 1 (2023), pp. 6-31
"This paper examines the journalistic discourse on the Instagram project @ichbinsophiescholl, initiated by Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). The project is based on a fictional premise in which the resistance fighter Sophie Scholl uses the social media platform Instagram during t
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Collective Trauma
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 1 (2023), pp. 21-31
"If a society does not come to terms with horrific atrocities of the past, tensions may fast escalate into new strife. People must know the truth. The causes of violence must be spelt out and the perpetrators must be named. Otherwise, a new sense of mutual trust cannot grow. Such trust is needed for
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Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte
München: Beck, 5., durchges. Aufl. (2023), 127 pp.
"Das deutsche Kolonialreich war nicht groß und währte nur 30 Jahre. Es wirkte jedoch in vielfältiger Weise auf Deutschland zurück. Sebastian Conrad beschreibt, wie die koloniale Ordnung funktionierte, wo sie an ihre Grenzen stieß und wie die einheimischen Gesellschaften auf die Fremdherrschaft
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Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses: The Power of Togetherness
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 260 pp.
"Groupwork with Refugees and Survivors of Human Rights Abuses describes, explores and promotes the power of groupwork for refugees and survivors of human rights abuses in a range of contexts. Drawing on multiple theoretical approaches, the book features chapters from practitioners running groups in
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In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 281 pp.
"This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda. It explores the various strategies the state, civil society, and individuals have employed to come to terms with their past and shape their future. The main objectiv
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Versöhnungstheater
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2023), 173 pp.
"Die im demokratischen Deutschland etablierte Erinnerungskultur gilt vielen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern als ein Erfolgsmodell, auf das sie mit einem gewissen Stolz blicken können. In der Tat war es ein langer Weg von der weitgehenden Verdrängung der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen bis zu ihrer ö
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Violent Past: Teaching Manual
Key Guides
Phnom Penh: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum (2023), 103 pp.
"This manual offers ideas on how to discuss a violent past in an active manner. The manual mostly focuses on methodology: how to make learning about the past interesting for learners. There is less focus on the specific content of the past. To spark learner’s interest in the (violent) past, it is
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Handbuch kommunikationswissenschaftliche Erinnerungsforschung
Berlin: De Gruyter (2023), xv, 590 pp.
"Das Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick zu den Grundlagen, Schwerpunkten und Perspektiven der Beschäftigung mit kommunikativem Erinnern und medialem Gedächtnis. Damit erschließen seine Beiträge das Feld kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Erinnerungsforschung und verknüpfen es mit komple
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Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony after the Cold War
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xx, 227 pp.
"Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post–Cold War Francophone Africa. This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras
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Making Sense of International and Transitional Justice
Mediation: Biannual Publication of Fondation Hirondelle, issue 12 (2023), 6 pp.
"With the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, international criminal justice is back in the headlines. It had its golden age 30 years ago with the creation of international tribunals. Today, international justice procedures have become more complex, including non-judicial mechanisms for truth-seeki
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Memory Culture of the Anti-Leftist Violence in Indonesia: Embedded Remembering
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 226 pp.
"This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence. These memories are no
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Forensic Conflict Studies: Making Sense of War in the Social Media Age
Media, War & Conflict, volume 16, issue 2 (2023), pp. 153-172
"Online media is a blessing and a curse for academic research on war. On the one hand, the internet provides unprecedented access to information from conflict zones. On the other hand, the prevalence of disinformation can make it difficult to use this information in a transparent way. This article p
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Dealing With the Past for a Peaceful Future? Analysing the Effect of Transitional Justice Instruments on Trust in Postconflict Societies
International Journal of Transitional Justice, volume 17 (2023), pp. 303-321
"Can dealing with a history of violent conflict through transitional justice help to rebuild social trust? Addressing three gaps in the current literature, we (1) analyse the effect of transitional justice on social trust, thereby going beyond the predominant focus on renewed violence; (2) use novel
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