1st Edition

The Memorialization of Genocide

Edited By Simone Gigliotti Copyright 2016
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

Divided societies, tormented pasts, and unrepentant perpetrators. Why are some countries more intent on vanquishing uncomfortable pasts than others? How do public and often unsightly attempts at memorialisation both fail the victims and valorize their oppressors? This book offers fresh and original perspectives on dictatorship, fascism and victimization from the bloodiest decades in Europe’s,... Read more

Introduction Simone Gigliotti

1. Thinking comparatively about genocide memorialization Rebecca Jinks

2. Memorializing colonial genocide in Britain: the case of Tasmania Tom Lawson

3. Site of memory and dismemory: the Valley of the Fallen in Spain Andrea Hepworth

4. Holocaust commemoration in Romania: Roma and the contested politics of memory and memorialization Michelle Kelso and Daina S. Eglitis

5. Revisiting the El Mozote massacre: memory and politics in postwar El Salvador Rafael Alarcón Medina and Leigh Binford

Biography

Simone Gigliotti teaches in the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of books, chapters and articles on the Holocaust and comparative genocide studies. Her current research projects focus on film activism and DPs in postwar Europe and Holocaust transmigrations in South-East Asia.