Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Memory

Description

This book explores the memory and representation of genocide as they affect individuals, communities and families, and artistic representations. It brings together a variety of disciplines from public health to philosophy, anthropology to architecture, offering readers interdisciplinary and international insights into one of the most important challenges in the 21st century. The book begins by describing the definitions and concepts of genocide from historical and philosophical perspectives. Next, it reviews memories of genocide in bodies and in societies as well as genocide in memory through lives, mental health and transgenerational effects. The book also examines the ways genocide has affected artistic works. From poetry to film, photography to theatre, it explores a range of artistic approaches to help demonstrate the heterogeneity of representations. This book provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging assessment of the many ways genocide has been remembered and represented. It presents an ideal foundation for understanding genocide and possibly preventing it from occurring again. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv Editors’ Introduction (Jutta Lindert, Armen T. Marsoobian)....Pages 1-6 Front Matter ....Pages 7-7 Definitions and Concepts of Genocide: Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide (Steven Leonard Jacobs)....Pages 9-20 Conceptions of Genocide and the Ethics of Memorialization (Jeffrey Blustein)....Pages 21-47 Jewish Social Memory and the Augmented Stages of Genocide (Shulamit Reinharz)....Pages 49-61 Front Matter ....Pages 63-63 Terror and Identity: The Case of Argentina and the Importance of the Different ‘Representations’ of the Past (Daniel Eduardo Feierstein)....Pages 65-80 Genocide and Its Long Term Mental Impact on Survivors – What We Know and What We Do Not Know (Jutta Lindert, Haim Y. Knobler, Moshe Z. Abramowitz)....Pages 81-101 Survival and Resilience Versus Psychopathology: A Seven-Decade Perspective Post-Holocaust (Haim Y. Knobler, Moshe Z. Abramowitz, Jutta Lindert)....Pages 103-113 Front Matter ....Pages 115-115 The Face of War and Genocide (Jay Winter)....Pages 117-146 When Past and Present Meet in Israeli Art: Memorialization of the Holocaust (Batya Brutin)....Pages 147-168 How Do We Memorialize Genocide? The Case of the German Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Armen T. Marsoobian)....Pages 169-185 The Suppression of Cultural Memory and Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (David Pettigrew)....Pages 187-198 British Media Representation of the War in Bosnia Herzegovina: Avoiding the Duties to Prevent and Protect (Charlotte McKee)....Pages 199-218 Front Matter ....Pages 219-219 Some Notes on My Poems and Armenian Memory (Peter Balakian)....Pages 221-223 Poems (Peter Balakian)....Pages 225-249 My Artistic Explorations of the Holocaust (Hans Guggenheim)....Pages 251-282 Coming to Terms with the Past: The Vienna Project as an Interactive, Interdisciplinary Model of Memorialization (Karen Frostig)....Pages 283-303 Collective Memory, Memorialization and Bearing Witness in the Aftermath of the Armenian Genocide (Armen T. Marsoobian)....Pages 305-320 Back Matter ....Pages 321-326