In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide. Whether coming to terms with atrocities committed in Namibia and Rwanda, Australia, Canada, the Punjab, Armenia, Cambodia and during the Holocaust, those seeking to remember genocide are confronted with numerous challenges. Survivors grapple with the possibility, or even the desirability, of recalling painful memories. Societies where genocide has been perpetrated find it difficult to engage with an...
In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities t...
In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide. Whether coming to terms with atrocities committed in Namibia and Rwanda, Australia, Canada, the Punjab, Armenia, Cambodia and during the Holocaust, those seeking to remember genocide are confronted with numerous challenges. Survivors grapple with the possibility, or even the desirability, of recalling painful memories. Societies where genocide has been perpetrated find it difficult to engage with an...
In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities t...
Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles in defining national identities and shaping international relations around the globe. Given the Cold War's blurred definition - it has neither a widely accepted commencement date nor unanimous conclusion - what is to be remembered? This book illustrates that there is, in fact, a huge body of 'remembrance,' and that it is more pertinent to ask: what should be included and what can be overlooked? Over five sections, this richly illustrated volume...
Remembering the Cold War examines how, more than two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War legacies continue to play crucial roles ...
Remembering the First World War brings together a group of international scholars to understand how and why the past quarter of a century has witnessed such an extraordinary increase in global popular and academic interest in the First World War, both as an event and in the ways it is remembered.
The book discusses this phenomenon across three key areas. The first section looks at family history, genealogy and the First World War, seeking to understand the power of family history in shaping and reshaping remembrance of the War at the smallest levels, as well as popular...
Remembering the First World War brings together a group of international scholars to understand how and why the past quarter of a century ...
Remembering the First World War brings together a group of international scholars to understand how and why the past quarter of a century has witnessed such an extraordinary increase in global popular and academic interest in the First World War, both as an event and in the ways it is remembered.
The book discusses this phenomenon across three key areas. The first section looks at family history, genealogy and the First World War, seeking to understand the power of family history in shaping and reshaping remembrance of the War at the smallest levels, as well as popular media and the...
Remembering the First World War brings together a group of international scholars to understand how and why the past quarter of a century has witne...
Remembering Independence looks at the period since the end of the Second World War when the great waves of decolonisation occurred, and these events were subsequently remembered. The book is organised in three sections. The first introduces a number of case studies and through recent celebrations of national days investigates the importance of independence in narratives of national progress. The following sections explore the case studies in greater detail, as well as introducing wider examples, focusing on the unceasing "work" of remembering independence as well as the contests...
Remembering Independence looks at the period since the end of the Second World War when the great waves of decolonisation occurred, and th...
Remembering Independence looks at the period since the end of the Second World War when the great waves of decolonisation occurred, and these events were subsequently remembered. The book is organised in three sections. The first introduces a number of case studies and through recent celebrations of national days investigates the importance of independence in narratives of national progress. The following sections explore the case studies in greater detail, as well as introducing wider examples, focusing on the unceasing "work" of remembering independence as well as the contests...
Remembering Independence looks at the period since the end of the Second World War when the great waves of decolonisation occurred, and th...
Remembering Women's Activism looks at memories of women's political activism, with an analytical lens which draws on recent theorisations of gender and memory. The book examines the intersections between gender politics and acts of remembrance through a series of case studies of major figures and events which have inspired significant acts of remembrance. The focus of the volume is on themes such as leadership, protest, war service and peace activism through a lens of gender and memory and the authors investigate how each these forms of remembering intersected with changing...
Remembering Women's Activism looks at memories of women's political activism, with an analytical lens which draws on recent theorisations ...
