Violence and Public Memory (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Blatt, Martin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book assesses violence & public memory by examining their interconnections in varied case studies across the United States, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. It is an important book for the complex and often difficult history of the relationship between violence and the way it is publicly remembered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000902471
• Artikelnr.: 67932687

Autorenporträt

Martin Blatt served as Professor of the Practice and Director of the Public History Program at Northeastern University, USA. He has served as President of the National Council on Public History (NCPH), on the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, and on the Board of MASS Humanities. Museum credits include a traveling exhibit on the Gulag, produced by the National Park Service, the Gulag Museum, and Amnesty International. He received the NCPH Robert Kelley Award for outstanding achievement in public history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: GENOCIDE Chapter 1. A model way of coming to terms with the past? -On the relevance and future tasks of historical-political education in (German) memorial sites; Chapter 2. The Holocaust in American Public Memory; Chapter 3. Memorializing Violence as a Political Tool: Public Memory and the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda Part II: SLAVERY Chapter 4. From Rumblings to Roar: Racial Violence, Historical Justice and the Changing Public History of Slavery in the United States; Chapter 5. From a culture of abolition to a culture war: Remembering transatlantic enslavement in Britain, 1807-2021 Part III: RACIAL AND SEXUAL HATRED IN THE UNITED STATES Chapter 6. Myths, Mascots, Monuments, and Massacres: Rethinking Native American history in the public sphere; Chapter 7. Creating the Conditions for Repair: Representation, Memorialization, and Commemoration; Chapter 8. What is Owed? Reparations, an indictment of public memory; Chapter 9. Remembering Pulse Part IV: APARTHEID Chapter 10. The Art of Memory: Echoes of Apartheid Police Brutality in the 2013 Marikana Massacre; Chapter 11. The land of milk and honey (and Palestinians) Part V: FASCISM AND WAR Chapter 12. Public Commemorations of Argentina's Histories of Violence; Chapter 13. The Violence of the Vietnam War in the Memorialized American Landscape