The Memorialization of Genocide
O ovoj e-knjizi
This book offers fresh and original perspectives on dictatorship, fascism and victimization from the bloodiest decades in Europe’s, Australia’s and Central America’s colonial and modern history. Chapters include analyses of Francoist memorials in Spain, assessments of the El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, the forgetting of frontier colonial violence in Tasmania, Romania’s treatment of its Roma populations in the midst of Holocaust memorialisation in Bucharest’s urban development, and whether or not the Holocaust continues to serve as an instructional model or impossible aspiration for cross-cultural genocide memorialisation strategies. In an era of ongoing political, ethnic and religious conflict, and unrepentant insurgent activity around the world, this collection reminds readers that genocidal actions, wherever and whenever they occurred, must be held to account by more than rhetoric and concrete memory. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.
O autoru
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 post-war Europe and Holocaust transmigrations in South-East Asia.
