Overview
- Explores the unmooring of memorialization from the harbors of the state in the digocene era
- Examines how non-state actors contest official ways of remembering past atrocities
- Argues that the range and reach of memorial expression has radically shifted with the digital turn
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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This volume explores the shifting tides of how political violence is memorialized in today's decentralized, digital era. The book enhances our understanding of how the digital turn is changing the ways that we remember, interpret, and memorialize the past. It also raises practical and ethical questions of how we should utilize these tools and study their impacts. Cases covered include memorialization efforts related to the genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia, Europe (the Holocaust), and Armenia; to non-genocidal violence in Haiti, and the Portuguese Colonial War on the African Continent; and of the September 11 attacks on the United States.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Reviews
“A tremendously important contribution to the growing attention to the ways past atrocities are memorialized through various media. The focus on non-state actors and the productive resistance to state-controlled memory helps readers understand how memorialization truly works, rather than rehearing or rationalizing state agendas regarding how memorialization should work. The balance between novel insights into various human rights violations, including a number of genocides, and the rich theoretical aspects of the case analyses taken as a whole is as rare in the literature as it is valuable even for the most knowledgeable scholar. The studies of the ways in which new technologies are impacting atrocity memory pushes readers far beyond the comfortable and reductive ideas about social media that not only pervade the media but also strongly impact academic thinking on the topic.” (Henry C. Theriault, President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and Co-Editor of Genocide Studies International)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eve Monique Zucker is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, USA, and a research affiliate at Yale University, USA. She is the author of Forest of Struggle: Moralities of Remembrance in Upland Cambodia (2013).
David J. Simon is Director of the Genocide Studies Program and Senior Lecturer of Political Science at Yale University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mass Violence and Memory in the Digital Age
Book Subtitle: Memorialization Unmoored
Editors: Eve Monique Zucker, David J. Simon
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39395-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39394-6Published: 30 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39397-7Published: 30 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39395-3Published: 29 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 246
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, Memory Studies, Digital/New Media