Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and by Prof Aleida Assmann, A. Assmann, S. Conrad

By Prof Aleida Assmann, A. Assmann, S. Conrad

The authors offer a significant contribution to reminiscence stories and a part of an emergent strand of labor on international reminiscence. This book offers very important insights on issues with regards to reminiscence, globalization, foreign politics, diplomacy, Holocaust reports and media and conversation reviews.

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By Prof Aleida Assmann, A. Assmann, S. Conrad

The authors offer a significant contribution to reminiscence stories and a part of an emergent strand of labor on international reminiscence. This book offers very important insights on issues with regards to reminiscence, globalization, foreign politics, diplomacy, Holocaust reports and media and conversation reviews.

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Brooks, Roy L. (1999), ‘The Age of Apology’, in: Roy L. ), When Sorry isn’t Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice (New York/NY: New York University Press), 3–11. 30 Addressing Painful Memories Bull, Hedley (1984), ‘The Emergence of a Universal International Society’, in: Hedley Bull and Adam Watson (eds), The Expansion of International Society (Oxford: Clarendon Press), 117–26. Buruma, Ian (1994), The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan (New York/NY: Farrar Straus Giroux).

Only the election of a centre-left Labour government in late 2007 saw the new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, deliver an apology, his first act in the new parliament, on 13 February 2008. Making front page news around the world, Rudd’s gesture was emulated months later by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who apologized to the approximately 150,000 First Nations victims of the country’s boarding school policy of assimilation (Diebel 2008). From the first, Rudd’s announcement of an official apology provoked controversy.

Hoskins, Andrew (2009), ‘Digital Network Memory’, in: Astrid Erll and Ann Rigney (eds), Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory (Berlin/New York: de Gruyter), 91–106. ), Networked Publics (Cambridge: MIT Press), 1–14. Jager, Sheila Miyoshi and Rana Mitter (eds) (2007), Ruptured Histories: War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press). Jordan, Jennifer (2006), Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond (Stanford: Stanford University Press).

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