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Memory and the Future, Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society, edited by Yifat Gutman, Adam D. Brown and Amy Sodaro

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Memory and the Future

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edited by Yifat Gutman, Adam D. Brown and Amy Sodaro

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Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society

For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars who bring the future into the study of memory

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Memory and the Future: Why a Change of Focus is Necessary; Part I: Memory through Space and Time: The Internationalization of Memory226}0ђأ How Meanings and Models Travel the World; 1 Changing Temporalities and the Internationalization of Memory Cultures; 2 Misremembering the Holocaust: Universal Symbol, Nationalist Icon or Moral Kitsch?; 3 Memory and History from Past to Future: A Dialogue with Dori Laub on Trauma and Testimony4 Remembering Yesterday to Protect Tomorrow: The Internationalization of a New Commemorative ParadigmPart II: Forms and Genres: Narrative, Oral History and Visual Memory226}0ђأ How the Form Serves the Aim; 5 The Role of Conversations in Shaping Individual and Collective Memory, Attitudes and Behavior; 6 Re-Presenting Victim and Perpetrator: The Role of Photographs in US Service Members' Testimony Against War; 7 How Shall We Remember Srebrenica? Will the Language of Law Structure Our Memory?; Part III: Temporality and the Political I: Utopia8 Refugees from Utopia: Remembering, Forgetting and the Making of The Feminist Memoir Project9 Happy Memories under the Mushroom Cloud: Utopia and Memory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Temporality and the Political II: Revenge; 10 Authorizing Death: Memory Politics and States of Exception in Contemporary El Salvador; 11 Memories of War and Enacting the Future at Yasukuni Shrine, Japan; Afterword; Index;