Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence. Using examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins analyzes the practices of memory rituals through memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, in an original contribution to the study of memory.
Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence. Using examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins analyzes the practices of memory rituals through memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, in an original contribution to the study of memory.
Jenny Edkins is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Her publications include Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid (2000), Poststructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In (1999) and, with Nalini Persram and Veronique Pin-Fat, Sovereignty and Subjectivity (1999).
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List of illustrations Preface 1. Introduction: trauma, violence and political community 2. Survivor memories and the diagnosis of trauma: the Great War and Vietnam 3. War memorials and remembrance: the London Cenotaph and the Vietnam Wall 4. Concentration camp memorials and museums: Dachau and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum 5. Testimony and sovereign power after Auschwitz: Holocaust witness and Kosovo refugees 6. Conclusion: the return of the political - the memory of politics Bibliography Index.
List of illustrations Preface 1. Introduction: trauma, violence and political community 2. Survivor memories and the diagnosis of trauma: the Great War and Vietnam 3. War memorials and remembrance: the London Cenotaph and the Vietnam Wall 4. Concentration camp memorials and museums: Dachau and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum 5. Testimony and sovereign power after Auschwitz: Holocaust witness and Kosovo refugees 6. Conclusion: the return of the political - the memory of politics Bibliography Index.
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