A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies. INDICE: - Preface - Note on the Contributors - Introduction - PART I: WITNESSING IN A GLOBAL ARENA - Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations; C.Daase - Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People; D.Celermajer; D.Moses - PART II: MORAL CLAIMS AND UNIVERSAL NORMS - The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America; E.Jelin - Vietnam, the New Left andthe Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide; B.Molden - TheHolocaust - a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community;A.Assmann - PART III: GLOBAL MEMORIES AND TRANS-NATIONAL IDENTITIES - Globalization, Universalization, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory; J.Assmann - Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability; J.H.Lim - Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan; S.Conrad - PART IV: GLOBAL ICONS AND CULTURAL SYMBOLS - Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar; G.Bolton; N.Muzurovic - 'Fragments of Reminiscence': Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory; A.Sobral - Neda b The Career of a Global Image; A.Assmann; C.Assmann -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-27291-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 20/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés