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The First Draft of History. Journalists: Witnesses Before the Hague Tribunal
Sarajevo: Mediacentar (2022), 97 pp.
"The book was born out of the need to understand and convey the experience of journalists who testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Aiming to shed light on the insufficiently researched role of journalists and newspaper material before the ICTY, Media
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Romper el silencio: Historias para no repetir la historia. Una estrategia de eduentretenimiento basada en la realidad colombiana, para cambiar la realidad colombiana
Bogotá: Fundación Imaginario (2022), 8 pp.
"A través de historias que nos conmueven y nos tocan emocionalmente, Romper el Silencio tiene como objetivo enseñarnos a escuchar a otras personas con apertura y empatía, aunque piensen distinto; a reconocer sus argumentos aunque no sean los nuestros; a respetar sus ideas sin señalamientos y al
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Brewing Tensions: The Colonial Gaze of the German–Namibian Publishing Industry
Africa Spectrum, volume 57, issue 3 (2022), pp. 264-281
"The call to decolonize African Studies has a profound influence on the field, with varying degrees of success. This article addresses this topic in relation to the author’s personal experiences in the publishing industry in Namibia. By describing the attempt to publish a historical book about Nam
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Collective Memory: Visual Perspectives from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa
München: kopaed; Exploring Visual Cultures project (2022), 160 pp.
"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote
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Changing the Story: Intergenerational Dialogue, Participatory Video and Perpetrator Memories in Cambodia
Memory Studies, volume 16, issue 5 (2022), 17 pp.
"Questions of reconciliation and memory after genocide and conflict in Cambodia remain finely poised. Young people often do not believe the stories of hardship and loss of the older generation, and cleavages remain between divided and stigmatised former factions. This article reflects on a series of
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Memory and Erasure: Gukurahundi and the Culture of Violence in Zimbabwe
Bulawayo; Harare: Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE); Weaver Press (2022), xxxi, 153 pp.
"Memory and Erasure brings together young and established Zimbabwean scholars and activists who explore with fresh eyes the failure to overcome the terrible legacies of this period. At its heart is recognition that justice cannot be achieved while Gukurahundi’s perpetrators remain in power and sti
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News Media Access for Civil Society Actors During Democratisation Processes: The Case of the Transitional Justice Campaign in Uruguay
Journalism Studies, volume 23, issue 16 (2022), pp. 2038-2056
"Theoretical scholarship on media democratisation neglects the role of representing groups in civil society, which in new democracies emerging from authoritarian regimes are frequently marginalised. These groups may also contest the form of democracy that has been implemented, and the way in which i
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Hay futuro si hay verdad: Informe final. Vol.1: Convocatoria a la paz grande
Bogotá: Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición (2022), 51 pp.
"Reconciliación significa aceptar la verdad como condición para la construcción colectiva y superar el negacionismo y la impunidad. Significa tomar la determinación de nunca más matarnos y sacar las armas de la política. Significa aceptar que somos muchos —en diverso grado, por acción o por
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The Transition Will be Televised: Telenovelas, Reconciliation and Transitional Justice in Colombia
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2022), 453 pp.
"This book explores the imprint that the peace process involving the guerilla organisation FARC-EP left on Colombian TV fiction. To that end, it scrutinises the phenomenon of Colombian reconciliation telenovelas, which are intrinsically linked to the national Transitional Justice process. Based on a
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Viewing Photography in Post-Dictatorship Latin America: Visual Interruptions, 1997-2016
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xvii, 293 pp.
"This book examines the archival aesthetic of mourning and memory developed by Latin American artists and photographers between 1997-2016. Particular attention is paid to how photographs of the assassinated or disappeared political dissident of the 1970s and 1980s, as found in family albums and in o
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Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus: Ein Kompendium
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2021), 718 pp.
La fuerza de esta voz
Bogotá: Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición (2021), 103 pp.
"Este libro es un homenaje a la historia de millones de colombianos y colombianas que se niegan a convivir con la violencia y que han encontrado en el perdón, y en el encuentro honesto con los responsables del daño y el dolor, el camino hacia la reconstrucción de las relaciones rotas por la guerr
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Gukurahundi: Das Laute Schweigen
Zimbabwe im Fokus, issue 72 (2021), pp. 5-15
Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 334 pp.
"This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary appr
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"This project has explored the ways in which an independent, public service-spirited media could create content about historical issues that avoids playing into propaganda-driven divides, fosters a more constructive discourse around history and brings Ukrainians into a common national conversation.
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Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media
Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press (2021), xiv, 408 pp.
"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are
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On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History
New York; Oxford: Berghahn; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2021), 104 pp.
"Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known image
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Deutschland postkolonial? Die Gegenwart der imperialen Vergangenheit
Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2., aktual. und erw. Aufl. (2021), 610 pp.
"Der Umgang mit der Kolonialgeschichte, die hierzulande lange im Schatten der Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus und des Holocaust stand, unterliegt gegenwärtig einem grundlegenden Wandel. Zwar zählt auch Deutschland faktisch zu den postkolonialen Gesellschaften Europas, doch ist diese Tatsache
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