This essay presents a sociological analysis of what is known in Spain as the “recovery of histori... more This essay presents a sociological analysis of what is known in Spain as the “recovery of historical memory” and the politics deriving from this recovery. This process was catalyzed by the exhumations of the remains of victims of Francoism that have been under way since the beginning of the twenty-first century. In order to do this, we will use the literature on cosmopolitan sociology and provide a dialogue between this sociology and recent developments in the study of social and cultural memory using concepts like postmemory, multidirectional, and cosmopolitan memory. The article moves beyond the national context and looks at Spanish memory politics through the theory and praxis of Holocaust memory on the one hand and the memory of the Argentinean victims of the military dictatorship on the other hand. This will enable us to identify the components and problems of a culture and politics of globalized memory.
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Paris, Geneva, and Port Bou: The Last Europeans Chapter 3: Fra... more Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Paris, Geneva, and Port Bou: The Last Europeans Chapter 3: Frankfurt, Jerusalem, Offenbach, and New York: Jews and Europe Chapter 4: The View from Eastern Europe: From Warsaw to New York Chapter 5: Zurich, Vilna, and Nuremberg: Generalized Guilt Chapter 6: From Nuremberg to New York via Jerusalem Chapter 7: Between Drohobych and New York: An End and a New Beginning References
Wo liegt die Grenze zwischen legitimer Kritik an Israel und Antisemitismus? Hat sich der Antisemi... more Wo liegt die Grenze zwischen legitimer Kritik an Israel und Antisemitismus? Hat sich der Antisemitismus in der Ideenwelt des Islam etabliert? Inwieweit spielen bei linkem Antizionimus antisemitische Topoi eine Rolle? Seit einigen Jahren gibt es eine neue, weltweit gefuhrte Debatte uber den Antisemitismus. Nicht mehr Rechtsextremismus und Vergangenheitsbewaltigung stehen dabei im Vordergrund, sondern die kontroversen Positionen gegenuber dem Nahostkonflikt. In zahlreichen Originalbeitragen dokumentiert der Band den internationalen Stand der Debatte erstmals fur das deutsche Publikum. Mit Texten von Omer Bartov, Ulrich Beck, Micha Brumlik, Ian Buruma, Judith Butler, Dan Diner, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Thomas Haury, Jeffrey Herf, Tony Judt, Gerd Koenen, Matthias Kuntzel, Antony Lerman, Andrei Markovits, Michael Walzer, Robert Wistrich und Moshe Zimmermann.
Revista Internacional De Los Estudios Vascos Eusko Ikaskuntzen Nazioarteko Aldizkaria Revue Internationale Des Etudes Basques International Journal on Basque Studies Riev, 2012
This essay presents a sociological analysis of what is known in Spain as the “recovery of histori... more This essay presents a sociological analysis of what is known in Spain as the “recovery of historical memory” and the politics deriving from this recovery. This process was catalyzed by the exhumations of the remains of victims of Francoism that have been under way since the beginning of the twenty-first century. In order to do this, we will use the literature on cosmopolitan sociology and provide a dialogue between this sociology and recent developments in the study of social and cultural memory using concepts like postmemory, multidirectional, and cosmopolitan memory. The article moves beyond the national context and looks at Spanish memory politics through the theory and praxis of Holocaust memory on the one hand and the memory of the Argentinean victims of the military dictatorship on the other hand. This will enable us to identify the components and problems of a culture and politics of globalized memory.
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Paris, Geneva, and Port Bou: The Last Europeans Chapter 3: Fra... more Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Paris, Geneva, and Port Bou: The Last Europeans Chapter 3: Frankfurt, Jerusalem, Offenbach, and New York: Jews and Europe Chapter 4: The View from Eastern Europe: From Warsaw to New York Chapter 5: Zurich, Vilna, and Nuremberg: Generalized Guilt Chapter 6: From Nuremberg to New York via Jerusalem Chapter 7: Between Drohobych and New York: An End and a New Beginning References
Wo liegt die Grenze zwischen legitimer Kritik an Israel und Antisemitismus? Hat sich der Antisemi... more Wo liegt die Grenze zwischen legitimer Kritik an Israel und Antisemitismus? Hat sich der Antisemitismus in der Ideenwelt des Islam etabliert? Inwieweit spielen bei linkem Antizionimus antisemitische Topoi eine Rolle? Seit einigen Jahren gibt es eine neue, weltweit gefuhrte Debatte uber den Antisemitismus. Nicht mehr Rechtsextremismus und Vergangenheitsbewaltigung stehen dabei im Vordergrund, sondern die kontroversen Positionen gegenuber dem Nahostkonflikt. In zahlreichen Originalbeitragen dokumentiert der Band den internationalen Stand der Debatte erstmals fur das deutsche Publikum. Mit Texten von Omer Bartov, Ulrich Beck, Micha Brumlik, Ian Buruma, Judith Butler, Dan Diner, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Thomas Haury, Jeffrey Herf, Tony Judt, Gerd Koenen, Matthias Kuntzel, Antony Lerman, Andrei Markovits, Michael Walzer, Robert Wistrich und Moshe Zimmermann.
Revista Internacional De Los Estudios Vascos Eusko Ikaskuntzen Nazioarteko Aldizkaria Revue Internationale Des Etudes Basques International Journal on Basque Studies Riev, 2012
We want to conclude with some of the troubling questions with which we started. Can states and so... more We want to conclude with some of the troubling questions with which we started. Can states and societies heal through a therapeutic process like individuals who are traumatized or in mourning? Can we assume that people acting as groups, as collectives, undergo the same process as people acting as individuals? Individually , is it possible for someone to forgive the murderer of one's parents and/ or grandparents? But as the relation of whole states or among groups within a state, it happens all the time.
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