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A cat-and-Maus game: The politics of truth and reconciliation in post-conflict comics
Review of International Studies, volume 45, issue 4 (2019), pp. 588-606
"Several scholars have raised concerns that the institutional mechanisms through which transitional justice is commonly promoted in post-conflict societies can alienate affected populations. Practitioners have looked to bridge this gap by developing ‘outreach’ programmes, in some instances commi
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Documenting atrocities around the world: Why engage with the perpetrators?
International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 22, issue 6 (2019), pp. 804-822
"Following a century filled with violations of human rights, a significant number of documentary films have appeared since the first decade of the current century that report these events. Traditionally this process is carried out from the victims’ point of view. However, a new tendency has emerge
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'Screening' Transitional Justice in Serbia: ICTY Representations and the Memory of War Crimes in Serb Television Media
Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF) (2019), 41 pp.
"The visual presentation of the Serb accused in TV news was based on iconic images of the accused combined with symbolic images of the state and its power, with nearly complete absence of visuals of atrocities and victims. In contrast, the visual presentation of the Croatian, Bosniak and Albanian de
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Transmitted Wounds: Media and the Mediation of Trauma
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), vii, 186 pp.
"Transmitted Wounds explores the ways media shape the social life of trauma both clinically and culturally. Through a series of case studies - from the radiocasts of the Eichmann trial to virtual reality therapy for PTSD - Pinchevski offers a bold thesis about the deep association of media and traum
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Media Freedom and Responsibility
Balkan Perspectives, issue 13 (2019), 24 pp.
"In the western Balkans, where post-war societies are still trying to rebuild their lives, and tensions lie just below the surface, media messages influenced by the politics of the day are destabilizing. For some, this is poorly disguised propaganda, a kind of political “spin”, “spun” by man
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Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 69, issue 40 (2019), 46 pp.
"Mit dem Versailler Vertrag musste Deutschland 1919 seine Kolonien abtreten. Das Ende des deutschen Kolonialreichs war jedoch in erster Linie ein formales. Die Fremdherrschaft in den ehemaligen Kolonien setzte sich unter dem Status als Völkerbundmandate fort, und kolonial geprägte Denk- und Wahrne
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Wir Herrenmenschen. Unser rassistisches Erbe: Eine Reise in die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2019), 299 pp.
"Auch wenn die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte mittlerweile öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfährt, wird die Herrschaft, die Deutschland in seinen "Schutzgebieten" in Afrika, China und der Südsee ausübte, oft immer noch als eher harmlose historische Episode abgetan. Der langjährige Afrika-Korrespondent
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The Role of the Media in Fostering a Culture of Critical Engagement in the Context of Mass Atrocities: Examples from Rwanda, Colombia and South Sudan
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 205-234
"A brief recap of the examples discussed here suggests, among other things, the following considerations: When information circulation is limited due to censorship or security concerns, it may be necessary to restrict information to what is essential for survival. In the case of BBTT in South Sudan,
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Illustrated (Hi)stories
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), 207 pp.
"Das Gedenken an den Ersten Weltkrieg in Deutschland und Europa ist nach wie vor sehr auf die europäische Perspektive beschränkt. Tatsächlich war der Krieg ein globaler: Millionen Soldaten aus kolonisierten Gebieten nahmen an den Kämpfen teil. Die Kolonialtruppen bildeten ein wesentliches Elemen
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El arte desde el pasado fracturado peruano
Lima: IEP Ediciones (2018), 343 pp.
"La Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación no solo documentó la violencia política de las décadas del ochenta y noventa, sino que también le dio a los peruanos una oportunidad única para examinar las causas y la naturaleza de esa violencia. En El arte después de un pasado fracturado peruano, ac
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Performing Trauma in Central Africa: Shadows of Empire
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2018), xviii, 348 pp.
"What are the stakes of cultural production in a time of war? How is artistic expression prone to manipulation by the state and international humanitarian organizations? In the charged political terrain of post-genocide Rwanda, post-civil war Uganda, and recent violence in the Democratic Republic of
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Formen des Vergessens
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 224 pp.
"Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Dominanz der Auseinandersetzung mit Erinnerung haben wir das Vergessen anscheinend vergessen. Tatsächlich ist aber nicht das Erinnern, sondern das Vergessen der Grundmodus menschlichen und gesellschaftlichen Lebens. Für das Erinnern bedarf es einer aktiven Anstrengun
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Die Ursprünge des Kinos in Kamerun: Bewertung und Produktion der ersten deutschen Filme
Goethe-Institut (2018), 6 pp.
"Das Ziel dieses Artikels ist es: 1) den Kontext der Einführung des Kinos in Kamerun zu beschreiben und 2) die Produktion und Nutzung deutscher Kinofilme in Kamerun zu erfassen und zu analysieren. Wir werden uns insbesondere mit der Frage der Entstehung des Kinos in Kamerun während der deutschen K
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The Oral History Manual
Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 3rd ed. (2018), viii, 145 pp.
"The Oral History Manual is designed to help anyone interested in doing oral history research to think like an oral historian. Recognizing that oral history is a research methodology, the authors define oral history and then discuss the methodology in the context of the oral history life cycle – t
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Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice
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
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Development Vs Peace? The Role of Media in the Law of Victims and Land Restitution in Colombia
Media, War & Conflict, volume 11, issue 3 (2018), pp. 336-357
"The Law of Victims and Land Restitution, ratified in June 2011 and enforced since January 2012, constitutes an unprecedented attempt to end armed conflict in Colombia by applying a transitional justice framework and fostering rural development. Drawing on a methodology that integrates framing and r
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Das Kongo Tribunal
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), 302 pp.
"Seit mehr als 20 Jahren herrscht Bürgerkrieg im Kongo. Über drei Millionen Menschen haben bereits ihr Leben verloren. Der Kampf um Rohstoffe wie Coltan, Zinn und Kupfer, an denen der Ostkongo reich ist, spitzt sich weiter zu. 2015 inszenierte der Schweizer Regisseur und Theaterautor Milo Rau das
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The Perpetrator’s mise-en-scène: Language, Body, and Memory in the Cambodian Genocide
Journal of Perpetrator Research, volume 2, issue 1 (2018), pp. 65-94
"Rithy Panh’s film 'S-21. The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine' (2003) was the result of a three-year shooting period in the Khmer Rouge centre of torture where perpetrators and victims exchanged experiences and re-enacted scenes from the past under the gaze of the filmmaker’s camera. Yet, a crucial
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The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.
"The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses
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