Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice

2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-35406-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Exposing how memory is constructed and mediated in different societies, this collection explores particular contexts to identify links between the politics of memory, media representations and the politics of justice, questioning what we think we know and understand about recent history.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lee, P.

Thomas, P.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Introduction: Public Media and the Right to Memory: Towards an Encounter with Justice Rethinking Justice: Between Public Amnesia and Public Memory Images of Disappearance in Argentina: How Films, Photos, and Television Buttress Memory East Timor, the United States and Mass Atrocities: Remembering and Forgetting Justice, Media and Memory: The South African Transition A Time of Mourning: The Politics of Commemorating the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda The European Roma: An Unsettled Right to Memory The Chechen Memory of Deportation: From Recalling a Silenced Past to the Political Use of Public Memory 'Media memories' in Bosnia and Herzegovina Slavery and Emancipation in the Caribbean: Preserving the Public Memory Endnote Index

Über Autor(innen)

AURÉLIE CAMPANA Associate Professor in political science at Laval University, Québec, Canada
HOPETON DUNN Professor of Communications Policy and Digital Media at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica
KARMEN ERJAVEC Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
CLAUDIA FELD Researcher at the CONICET (Argentina) and a Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and at the National University of General Sarmiento, Argentina
CEES J. HAMELINK Professor of Human Rights and Public Health at the Athena Institute at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
RACHEL IBRECK Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland
JOSEPH NEVINS Teacher of Geography at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
ANNA READING Professor of Communication at the University of Western Sydney, Australia
GERMÁN VARGAS Lawyer specializing in Human Rights and working at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru
CHARLES VILLA-VICENCIO Fellow and Emeritus Professor of the University of Cape Town, South Africa
ZALA VOL?I? Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Queensland, Australia