The Memorialization of Genocide - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138099015 ISBN 13: 9781138099012

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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, 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 memorialization 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 memorialization 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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138099015
• ISBN 13: 9781138099012
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Gigliotti Simone