Performative Holocaust Commemoration In The 21st Century

Author : Diana I. Popescu,Tanja Schult
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000442755

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Performative Holocaust Commemoration in the 21st Century by Diana I. Popescu,Tanja Schult Pdf

This book charts the performative dimension of the Holocaust memorialization culture through a selection of representative artistic, educational, and memorial projects. Performative practice refers to the participatory and performance-like aspects of the Holocaust memorial culture, the transformative potential of such practice, and its impact upon visitors. At its core, performative practice seeks to transform individuals from passive spectators into socially and morally responsible agents. This edited volume explores how performative practices came into being, what impact they exert upon audiences, and how researchers can conceptualise and understand their relevance. In doing so, the contributors to this volume innovatively draw upon existing philosophical considerations of performativity, understandings of performance in relation to performativity, and upon critical insights emerging from visual and participatory arts. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

Author : David M. Seymour,Mercedes Camino
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317299592

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The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century by David M. Seymour,Mercedes Camino Pdf

This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant contexts, elucidating the political, social, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of these meanings, and offering interventions in the contemporary debates of Holocaust memory that suggest ways forward for the future.

Author : Diana I. Popescu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031530043

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Public Engagement with Holocaust Memory Sites in Poland by Diana I. Popescu Pdf

Author : Diana I. Popescu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000789935

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Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums by Diana I. Popescu Pdf

Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums is the first volume to offer comprehensive insights into visitor reactions to a wide range of museum exhibitions, memorials, and memory sites. Drawing exclusively upon empirical research, chapters within the book offer critical insights about visitor experience at museums and memory sites in the United States, Poland, Austria, Germany, France, the UK, Norway, Hungary, Australia, and Israel. The contributions to the volume explore visitor experience in all its complexity and argue that visitors are more than just "learners". Approaching visitor experience as a multidimensional phenomenon, the book positions visitor experience within a diverse national, ethnic, cultural, social, and generational context. It also considers the impact of museums’ curatorial and design choices, visitor motivations and expectations, and the crucial role emotions play in shaping understanding of historical events and subjects. By approaching visitors as active interpreters of memory spaces and museum exhibitions, Popescu and the contributing authors provide a much-needed insight into the different ways in which members of the public act as "agents of memory", endowing this history with personal and collective meaning and relevance. Visitor Experience at Holocaust Memorials and Museums offers significant insights into audience motivation, expectation, and behaviour. It is essential reading for academics, postgraduate students and practitioners with an interest in museums and heritage, visitor studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and tourism.

Author : Victoria Grace Walden
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030834968

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Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research by Victoria Grace Walden Pdf

This book explores the diverse range of practical and theoretical challenges and possibilities that digital technologies and platforms pose for Holocaust memory, education and research. From social media to virtual reality, 360-degree imaging to machine learning, there can be no doubt that digital media penetrate practice in these fields. As the Holocaust moves beyond living memory towards solely mediated memory, it is imperative that we pay critical attention to the way digital technologies are shaping public memory and education and research. Bringing together the voices of heritage and educational professionals, and academics from the arts and humanities and the social sciences, this interdisciplinary collection explores the practicalities of creating digital Holocaust projects, the educational value of such initiatives, and considers the extent to which digital technologies change the way we remember, learn about and research the Holocaust, thinking through issues such as ethics, embodiment, agency, community, and immersion. At its core, this volume interrogates the extent to which digital interventions in these fields mark an epochal shift in Holocaust memory, education and research, or whether they continue to be shaped by long-standing debates and guidelines developed in the broadcast era.

Author : O. Meyers,M. Neiger,E. Zandberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137325242

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Communicating Awe by O. Meyers,M. Neiger,E. Zandberg Pdf

Offering a cross-media exploration of Israeli media on Holocaust Remembrance Day, one of Israel's most sacred national rituals, over the past six decades, this fascinating book investigates the way in which variables such as medium, structure of ownership, genre and targeted audiences shape the collective recollection of traumatic memories.

Author : Timothy J. Demy,Gina Granados Palmer Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781440873911

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Religion and War by Timothy J. Demy,Gina Granados Palmer Ph.D. Pdf

Looking at topics across the spectrum of America's wars, religious groups, personalities, and ideas, this volume shows that even in an increasingly secular society, religious roots and values run deep throughout American society and are elevated in times of war. There is a long and deep relationship between religion, politics, and war in U.S. history. While there is a constitutional and legal separation of religion and the state in American society, religion has been and remains a potent force in American culture and politics affecting many aspects of life, including perspectives on war and peace and the experience of war in U.S. history. From the American Revolution to the wars of the 21st century, religious values have informed and influenced American attitudes toward war and peace and have provided rationale for support and non-support of American participation in conflicts. An overview essay surveys the background and significance of religion in American culture and provides historical context for discussions of contemporary topics. A timeline highlights key events related to wars and conflicts. The volume then includes more than 50 topical essays that discuss specific wars as well as religious themes within culture and politics, ultimately providing a detailed overview of the intersection of religion, war, and politics in contemporary America.

Author : Sara Jones,Roger Woods
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031137945

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The Palgrave Handbook of Testimony and Culture by Sara Jones,Roger Woods Pdf

This Palgrave Handbook examines the ways in which researchers and practitioners theorise, analyse, produce and make use of testimony. It explores the full range of testimony in the public sphere, including perpetrator testimony, testimony presented through social media and virtual reality. A growing body of research shows how complex and multi-layered testimony can be, how much this complexity adds to our understanding of our past, and how creators and users of testimony have their own complex purposes. These advances indicate that many of our existing assumptions about testimony and models for working with it need to be revisited. The purpose of this Palgrave Handbook is to do just that by bringing together a wide range of disciplinary, theoretical, methodological, and practice-based perspectives.

Author : Chloë Taylor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040005880

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals by Chloë Taylor Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses. Comprising fifty chapters, the book explores a range of debates and scholarship within important contemporary topics such as companion animals, hunting, agriculture, and animal activist strategies. It also offers timely analyses of zoonotic disease pandemics, mass extinction, and the climate catastrophe, using perspectives including feminist, critical race, anti-colonial, critical disability, and masculinities studies. The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is an essential reference for students in gender studies, sexuality studies, human-animal studies, cultural studies, sociology, and environmental studies.

Author : G. Jan Colijn,Marcia Sachs Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89062613781

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Confronting the Holocaust by G. Jan Colijn,Marcia Sachs Littell Pdf

NOTE: Series number is not an integer: XIX This book is a selection of the latest research in the field of Holocaust studies as presented at the 26th Annual Scholars' Conference in the Holocaust and the Churches (1996) in a special volume dedicated to Yehuda Bauer.

Author : Christine Berberich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000368642

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Trauma & Memory by Christine Berberich Pdf

Over the past decades, the memory of the Holocaust has not only become a common cultural consciousness but also a cultural property shared by people all over the world. This collection brings together academics, critics and creative practitioners from the fields of Holocaust Studies, Literature, History, Media Studies, Creative Writing and German Studies to discuss contemporary trends in Holocaust commemoration and representation in literature, film, TV, the entertainment industry and social media. The essays in this trans-disciplinary collection debate how contemporary culture engages with the legacy of the Holocaust now that, 75 years on from the end of the Second World War, the number of actual survivors is dwindling. It engages with ongoing cultural debates in Holocaust Studies that have seen a development from, largely, testimonial presentations of the Holocaust to more fictional narratives both in literature and film. In addition to a number of chapters focusing in particular on literary trends in Holocaust representation, the collection also assesses other forms of cultural production surrounding the Holocaust, ranging from recent official memorialisation in Germany to Holocaust presentation in film, computer games and social media. The collection also highlights the contributions by creative practitioners such as writers and performers who use drama and the traditional art of storytelling in order to keep memories alive and pass them on to new generations. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

Author : Karin Tilmans,Frank van Vree,J. M. Winter
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789089642059

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Performing the Past by Karin Tilmans,Frank van Vree,J. M. Winter Pdf

Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale. --

Author : Jörg Echternkamp,Stephan Jaeger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789201277

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Views of Violence by Jörg Echternkamp,Stephan Jaeger Pdf

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.

Author : Fracapane, Karel,Haß, Matthias,Topography of Terror Foundation (Germany)
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231000423

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Holocaust education in a global context by Fracapane, Karel,Haß, Matthias,Topography of Terror Foundation (Germany) Pdf

"International interest in Holocaust education has reached new heights in recent years. This historic event has long been central to cultures of remembrance in those countries where the genocide of the Jewish people occurred. But other parts of the world have now begun to recognize the history of the Holocaust as an effective means to teach about mass violence and to promote human rights and civic duty, testifying to the emergence of this pivotal historical event as a universal frame of reference. In this new, globalized context, how is the Holocaust represented and taught? How do teachers handle this excessively complex and emotionally loaded subject in fast-changing multicultural European societies still haunted by the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators? Why and how is it taught in other areas of the world that have only little if any connection with the history of the Jewish people? Holocaust Education in a Global Context will explore these questions."--page 10.

Author : Amos Goldberg,Haim Hazan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 178238619X

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Marking Evil by Amos Goldberg,Haim Hazan Pdf

Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust-related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation. It contends that the contradiction between the totalizing logic of globalization and the assumed uniqueness of the Holocaust generates continued intellectual and practical discontent.