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Oral Histories of Genocide in Bosnia, Indonesia, and Rwanda: Symbolic Violence and Social Death

Erin Jessee, Annie Pohlman

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2026), 408 pp.

"Grounded in extensive oral historical, archival, and ethnographic research in the aftermaths of the Bosnian (1992-95), Indonesian (1965-66), and Rwandan (1994) genocides, this book investigates the symbolic meanings associated with spectacular forms of torture, murder, and mutilation that perpetrat ... more

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Handbook of Global Oral History
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Mark Cave, Selma Leydesdorff (eds.)

Leiden: Brill (2026), x, 699 pp.

"The Handbook of Global Oral History inspires the reader to be more open in their conception of what oral history is and how it is applied within a variety of disciplines to unlock meaning in human experience. The book brings together scholars from around the world in the areas ranging from memory s ... more

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Televisión con memoria: Entrevistas a creadores de ficción histórica en Chile y Colombia

Mónika Contreras Saiz (ed.)

Berlin; Bogotá: Laboratorio de Investigación de la Memoria y Métodos Digitales (GUMELAB); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); FES Comunicación (2025), 395 pp.

"La televisión latinoamericana no solo entretiene, también recuerda. En Chile y Colombia, series y telenovelas han hecho de la pantalla un espacio donde se discute la historia reciente, la dictadura, el conflicto armado, el narcotráfico, la corrupción. En Televisión con memoria, la historiadora ... more

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Zwischen Spiel und Geschichte. Verantwortung und Ethik in der Darstellung des Nationalsozialismus in Videospielen

Philip Dietrich

Communicatio Socialis, volume 57, issue 3 (2024), pp. 315-329

"Eine moderne Erinnerungskultur muss sich auch mit neuen Formen von Medien auseinandersetzen. Dazu zählt insbesondere das digitale Spiel. Ob neue Formen der Erinnerung gelingen können, hängt u. a. vom verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit historischen Settings ab. Besonders die Darstellung des National ... more

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War(s) in Europe. Shared experience, collective memory? A toolbox with methods tested in Germany, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Ida Avdibegovic, Nathalie Chevalier, Anne Favre et al.

Berlin: Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO); Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft (EVZ Foundation) (2024), 56 pp.

"Whether as a central theme or a reflection on current events, the issue of war is very important in international youth exchanges. This publication aims to provide guidance on how to talk about war in such contexts. Key questions that have been examined include the occurrence of past and current wa ... more

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Archival Silences

Michael S. Moss, David Thomas

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 257 pp.

"Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions ... more

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Transcribing Oral History

Teresa Bergen

New York: Routledge (2020), xix, 207 pp.

"Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct and transcribe interviews, the book goes on t ... more

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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

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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

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Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice

Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.

"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al ... more

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Doing Oral History
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Donald A. Ritchie

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed. (2015), xvi, 347 pp.

"Doing Oral History is considered the premier guidebook to oral history, used by professional oral historians, public historians, archivists, and genealogists as a core text in college courses and throughout the public history community. The recent development of digital audio and video recording te ... more

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Perú: Medios, memoria y violencia. Conferencias en Hamburgo

Markus Klaus Schäffauer, Blanca Segura García, Rocío Silva Santisteban, Hildegard Willer (eds.)

Lima: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya; Universität Hamburg (2014), 256 pp.

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Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 265 pp.

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Periodismo y memoria histórica: La contribución del periodismo en la recuperación de la memoria histórica a partir de testimonios orales

Margarita Antón Crespo, María Estrella Alonso del Barrio, Ana Fuertes Zapatero (coord.)

Salamanca: Comunicación Social (2013), 185 pp.

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Balkan Memories: Media Constructions of National and Transnational History

Tanja Zimmermann (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2012), 270 pp.

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Oral History

Patricia Leavy

New York: Oxford University Press (2011), viii, 186 pp.

"This title is part of the 'Understanding Qualitative Research' series, which is designed to provide researchers with authoritative guides to understanding, presenting, and critiquing analyses and associated inferences. There are three subareas in this series: Quantitative Research, Measurement, and ... more

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Media and Memory

Joanne Garde-Hansen

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2011), vii, 174 pp.

"How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers analyses of representations of memorable events, media tools for remembering and forgetting, media technologies for archivin ... more

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Right to memory

Media Development, volume 57, issue 2 (2010), pp. 3-59

"How reliable are the mass media’s stories and images of yesterday let alone of the more remote past? Only by rigorously cross-checking different sources of public or cultural memory might one reach a point that is reasonably balanced and accurate – an exercise in triangulating memory’s ever ... shifting terrain. This, of course, is the essence of positive revisionist history (rather than its negative counterpart, in which one must beware the hidden agendas of politics, ideology, class, gender, and religion.) The notion of a right to memory is, therefore, fraught with difficulty. Whose memories are being sought? How are they to be (re)constructed? How can their veracity, integrity, and credibility be guaranteed? And, in today’s information-sharing societies, what are the relationships between the right to memory, the right to information, and the right to communication? In Cambodia, a cultural unwillingness not to speak ill of the past is confronted by the extreme discomfort of survivors of the Pol Pot regime that killed 1.7 million (one sixth of the population). While the Cambodian government pursues reconciliation based on the political expediency of amnesty, the people’s right to communicate their stories stands precariously on their inability to recover the truth of what happened. In Uruguay a freedom of information law passed in 2008 provides the legal framework for public access to a vast quantity of secret state information pertaining to the country’s military dictatorships. The law clearly stipulates that there can be no restrictions when it comes to investigating violations of human rights. In South Africa, after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had completed its work, the essential question was how to generate the will to form restorative relationships that could tackle resentment, bring economic restitution, and forge new political structures that were just and equitable. Restorative relationships require coming to terms with memories that others might wish to forget. In this respect, a litmus test for a right to memory is how it might be used to transcend traumatic events in ways that overcome hatred, fear, guilt, and revenge. How might a right to memory contribute to a more peaceful and sustainable future? And a litmus test for political, social and cultural responses to the questions at the heart of public memory is how critical and balanced they are when issues of power, privilege, and impunity haunt the present. As Paul Ricoeur has pointed out, ‘The duty of memory is the duty to do justice, through memories, to an other than the self.’" (Editorial, page 2) more

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Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
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Mónika Contreras Saiz, Stefan Rinke (eds.)

Berlin: De Gruyter (2025), xxii, 381 pp.

"In Latin America, the production of telenovelas and TV series about the region's recent and traumatic past has grown considerably in the last 20 years, affecting societal perceptions of the past, historical consciousness, and political culture. While these TV products are usually perceived as trivi ... more

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Transitional Justice, Vergangenheitsarbeit und Auswärtige Kulturpolitik: Potenziale, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven einer Verzahnung

Barbara Unger, Natascha Zupan

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2025), 23 pp.

"Wie gestaltet sich das Zusammenspiel von Vergangenheitsarbeit, Friedensförderung, Kunst und Kultur in der internationalen Zusammenarbeit der Bundesrepublik? Welche Verbindungen bestehen zwischen dem eigenen Umgang mit gewaltbelasteter Vergangenheit und der Unterstützung dieser Prozesse im Ausland ... more

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Doing Oral History Key Guidance

Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment Top Insights

Handbook of Global Oral History
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Doing Oral History
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Latin America's Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment
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