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Remembering anti-colonial struggles: The politics of memory, culture and national identity in postcolonial Namibia
Against the background of memory activism and decolonial movements in Southern Africa, much discussed since the South African #RhodesMustFall movement in 2015, this project traces the complex transfigurations of anti-colonial struggle memory, culture, and citizenship in postcolonial Namibia from the late 1990s through to the early 2020s.
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(Im)possible Monuments? Gukurahundi and the Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe
Ncube, Gibson. 2024. (Im)possible Monuments? Gukurahundi and the Politics of Memorialisation in Zimbabwe. In J. S. Sanni & M. Z. Phiri (...
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Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family
Lentz, Carola and Isidore Lobnibe. 2022. Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family. Indiana University Press. https://boo...
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Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles
Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2021. Knowing about Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles. University of California Press. https://doi...
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Writing biography in the face of cultural trauma: Nazi descent and the management of spoiled identities
Savelsberg, Joachim J. 2020. Writing biography in the face of cultural trauma: Nazi descent and the management of spoiled identities. Americ...
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Criminalizing History: Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past in Germany, Poland, Rwanda, Turkey and Ukraine
Bachmann, Klaus and Christian Garuka (Eds.). 2020. Criminalizing History: Legal Restrictions on Statements and Interpretations of the Past i...
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Quand les « héros » d’hier sont les criminels d’aujourd’hui
Savelsberg, J. J. 2019. Quand les « héros » d’hier sont les criminels d’aujourd’hui. The Conversation, February. https://theconversation.com...
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Internationales Strafrecht – Beiträge zum kollektiven Gedächtnis.
Savelsberg, Joachim. J. 2019. “Internationales Strafrecht – Beiträge zum kollektiven Gedächtnis.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Einspruch Magazin. ...
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Historical Memory in Africa
Mamadou Diawarwa, Bernard C Lategan & Jörn Rüsen (editors). 2010. Historical Memory in Africa. Dealing with the past, reaching for the f...
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Introduction: Performative Commemoration of Painful Pasts
Schult, Tanja. 2018. Introduction: Performative Commemoration of Painful Pasts. Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, 14(3), 1–11....
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The Negatives: A Novel
The Negatives is a conceptual novel about a photographer adrift in contemporary America who is forced to confront the ethics of her practice in a moment at which the very medium of her art has reached a state of volatility, mutability, and impermanence.
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Memorializing Struggle: Dynamics of Memory, Space and Power in Post-Liberation Africa
In post-liberation societies, memorialization and commemoration can occur at a grand, national scale, often being linked to heroic freedom fighters or critical revolutionary turning points.
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Acknowledgment, Denial and Collective Memories of Mass Atrocities: Comparative Perspectives
Recent decades have witnessed systematic efforts to build institutions in response to mass atrocities, a justice cascade, and an unprecedented wave of apologies by heads of state.
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Fear and Forgiveness – an Eastern Cape story
The killing of Irish nun and medical doctor, Sister Aidan Quinlan, in the East London riots of 1952 at the height of the ANC Defiance Campaign, is an event that has long been difficult in the telling.
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Dying to forget: History, memory and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa
THIS project is about the discipline of history and the intergenerational transfer of trauma in South Africa.
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Commemorating Painful Pasts through Performative Practices
The 19th and the beginning of the 20th century have left a dark legacy behind: world wars, genocides, civil wars, dictatorships and terrorist attacks with millions of people tortured, persecuted, displaced, dead, or disappeared without a trace.