Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice

Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9781137265173
ISBN-13 : 1137265175
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Synopsis Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice by : P. Lee

Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to identify links between the politics of memory, media representations and the politics of justice, questioning what we think we know and understand about recent history.

Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice

Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 309
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ISBN-10 : 9781137265173
ISBN-13 : 1137265175
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Public Memory, Public Media and the Politics of Justice by : P. Lee

Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to identify links between the politics of memory, media representations and the politics of justice, questioning what we think we know and understand about recent history.

Trauma and Public Memory

Trauma and Public Memory
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9781137406804
ISBN-13 : 1137406801
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Synopsis Trauma and Public Memory by : J. Goodall

This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas.

Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy

Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781496214966
ISBN-13 : 149621496X
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Reclaiming 42: Public Memory and the Reframing of Jackie Robinson’s Radical Legacy by : David Naze

Reclaiming 42 centers on one of America’s most respected cultural icons, Jackie Robinson, and the forgotten aspects of his cultural legacy. Since his retirement in 1956, and more strongly in the last twenty years, America has primarily remembered Robinson’s legacy in an oversimplified way, as the pioneering first black baseball player to integrate the Major Leagues. The mainstream commemorative discourse regarding Robinson’s career has been created and directed largely by Major League Baseball (MLB), which sanitized and oversimplified his legacy into narratives of racial reconciliation that celebrate his integrity, character, and courage while excluding other aspects of his life, such as his controversial political activity, his public clashes with other prominent members of the black community, and his criticism of MLB. MLB’s commemoration of Robinson reflects a professional sport that is inclusive, racially and culturally tolerant, and largely postracial. Yet Robinson’s identity—and therefore his memory—has been relegated to the boundaries of a baseball diamond and to the context of a sport, and it is within this oversimplified legacy that history has failed him. The dominant version of Robinson’s legacy ignores his political voice during and after his baseball career and pays little attention to the repercussions that his integration had on many factions within the black community. Reclaiming 42 illuminates how public memory of Robinson has undergone changes over the last sixty-plus years and moves his story beyond Robinson the baseball player, opening a new, broader interpretation of an otherwise seemingly convenient narrative to show how Robinson’s legacy ultimately should both challenge and inspire public memory.

Journalism

Journalism
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 648
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ISBN-10 : 9781501500107
ISBN-13 : 1501500104
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Synopsis Journalism by : Tim P. Vos

This volume sets out the state-of-the-art in the discipline of journalism at a time in which the practice and profession of journalism is in serious flux. While journalism is still anchored to its history, change is infecting the field. The profession, and the scholars who study it, are reconceptualizing what journalism is in a time when journalists no longer monopolize the means for spreading the news. Here, journalism is explored as a social practice, as an institution, and as memory. The roles, epistemologies, and ethics of the field are evolving. With this in mind, the volume revisits classic theories of journalism, such as gatekeeping and agenda-setting, but also opens up new avenues of theorizing by broadening the scope of inquiry into an expanded journalism ecology, which now includes citizen journalism, documentaries, and lifestyle journalism, and by tapping the insights of other disciplines, such as geography, economics, and psychology. The volume is a go-to map of the field for students and scholars—highlighting emerging issues, enduring themes, revitalized theories, and fresh conceptualizations of journalism.

Remembering Genocide

Remembering Genocide
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 243
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ISBN-10 : 9781317754220
ISBN-13 : 1317754220
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Synopsis Remembering Genocide by : Nigel Eltringham

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 uncomfortable historical legacy. Still, to forget genocide, as this volume edited by Nigel Eltringham and Pam Maclean shows, is not an option. To do so reinforces the vulnerability of groups whose very existence remains in jeopardy and denies them the possibility of bringing perpetrators to justice. Contributors discuss how genocide is represented in media including literature, memorial books, film and audiovisual testimony. Debates surrounding the role museums and monuments play in constructing and transmitting memory are highlighted. Finally, authors engage with controversies arising from attempts to mobilise and manipulate memory in the service of reconciliation, compensation and transitional justice.

The Right to Memory

The Right to Memory
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9781800738577
ISBN-13 : 1800738579
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Right to Memory by : Noam Tirosh

The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals. With case studies including Polish Holocaust Law, the Indian origins of Amartya Sen's capability theory approach, and the right to memory through digital technologies in Brazilian and British museums, this collected volume seeks to establish the right to memory as a foundational topic in memory studies.

Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9783031398926
ISBN-13 : 3031398920
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa by : Mphathisi Ndlovu

This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book unpacks the influence or role of the global powers in conflict in the Global South. Contributors are grappling with a number of issues such as the politics of memorialization, memory conflicts, exhumations, reburials, historical dialogue, peacebuilding and social healing, memory activism, visual representation, transgenerational transmission of memories, and identity politics.

Carnivalizing Reconciliation

Carnivalizing Reconciliation
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781800731738
ISBN-13 : 1800731736
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Carnivalizing Reconciliation by : Hanna Teichler

Transitional justice and national inquiries may be the most established means for coming to terms with traumatic legacies, but it is in the more subtle social and cultural processes of “memory work” that the pitfalls and promises of reconciliation are laid bare. This book analyzes, within the realms of literature and film, recent Australian and Canadian attempts to reconcile with Indigenous populations in the wake of forced child removal. As Hanna Teichler demonstrates, their systematic emphasis on the subjectivity of the victim is problematic, reproducing simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization. Such fictions of reconciliation venture beyond simplistic narratives and identities defined by victimization, offering new opportunities for confronting painful histories.

Localising Memory in Transitional Justice

Localising Memory in Transitional Justice
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781000575682
ISBN-13 : 1000575683
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Localising Memory in Transitional Justice by : Mina Rauschenbach

This collection adds to the critical transitional justice scholarship that calls for “transitional justice from below” and that makes visible the complex and oftentimes troubled entanglements between justice endeavours, locality, and memory-making. Broadening this perspective, it explores informal memory practices across various contexts with a focus on their individual and collective dynamics and their intersections, reaching also beyond a conceptualisation of memory as mere symbolic reparation and politics of memory. It seeks to highlight the hidden, unwritten, and multifaceted in today’s memory boom by focusing on the memorialisation practices of communities, activists, families, and survivors. Organising its analytical focal point around the localisation of memory, it offers valuable and new insights on how and under what conditions localised memory practices may contribute to recognition and social transformation, as well as how they may at best be inclusive, or exclusive, of dynamic and diverse memories. Drawing on inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches, this book brings an in-depth and nuanced understanding of local memory practices and the dynamics attached to these in transitional justice contexts. It will be of much interest to students and scholars of memory and genocide studies, peace and conflict studies, transitional justice, sociology, and anthropology.