War and Memory
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Recent papers in War and Memory
Kriege und moderne militärische Konflikte bergen das wirkmächtige Potential den Verlauf der Geschichte in einer derart gestauchten chronologischen Abfolge der Geschehnisse zu verändern, die es für Gesellschaften schwer macht, sie in ihrer... more
Wars are now mediated in unprecedented ways and through a variety of communicative forms. Correspondingly, there is an increasing awareness among those involved in war of the need to gauge and manage what is communicated. Communicating... more
Title: 'Shimakutuba de kataru ikusayu' to 'Maus- Aushuvittsu o ikinobita chichioya no monogatari' no kanōsei [Japanese language article] In this article I compare the possibilities of representing and narrating the traumatic past, as well... more
(red.): Alt henger saman med alt! Festskrift til Øistein Espenes på 70-årsdagen. FHS/Luftkrigsskolens skriftserie vol. 37, Trondheim 2020, s. 173-188. Temaet for artikkelen er ulike forståingar av materielle minne som på ein eller annan... more
An Oral History and Memory Paper dealing with the Angolan War, Post-Military experiences and Military Veterans / Combat Veterans matters.
Este artigo analisa as representações sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial, veiculadas em livros didáticos japoneses para a escolarização básica, produzidos entre 1993 e 2002. Discute a omissão do Estado em relação aos crimes de guerra... more
(Sorry for the poor English editing - A/N) War responsibilities represent one of the most controversial and debated issues in the global Postwar scenery. In contemporary society, this discourse is all but defined and its ambiguity is... more
N.B. The uploaded paper is a slightly longer, earlier version of “Rashomon perceived: The challenge of forging a transnationally shared view of Kurosawa’s legacy,” in Davis, Blair, Robert Anderson, Jan Wall eds., Rashomon Effects:... more
The Japanese government is taking off the gloves with academics who research, write, and talk about sordid or awkward aspects of Japan’s twentieth-century history. This campaign ranges from harassment and intimidation to legal action in... more
An account of North Korean military support to North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front.
This thesis proposes a new perspective on Malaysian Chinese studies by exploring issues of identity formation refracted through the lens of contestations of war memory, communal history and state-sponsored national history. In multiethnic... more
Hermann Detzner’s 'Vier Jahre unter Kannibalen' (1921) purports to chronicle the author’s sojourn in the jungles of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, the German colony on Papua New Guinea, during World War I. While the narrative is based on facts,... more
I cd. ‘epigrammi delle Guerre Persiane’ (o ‘epigrammi di Maratona’, a seconda di quale delle due interpretazioni oggi prevalenti si accolga) costituiscono una delle prime forme di memoria degli eventi. Tra i molteplici problemi... more
Battle for Manila in February to March 1945, which was once given considerable publicity in the Japanese War Crimes Trials (1946-1948), has long been the subject of amnesia in Japan, the United States, and even in the Philippines. The... more
The collective remembrance of war constitutes a focal point for memory studies , and as such it has also found an echo in Ancient History . Within the conceptual framework offered by memory studies, in this chapter I want to consider the... more
El artículo examina la obra gráfica de Luis Fernando Rojas referente a la Guerra del Pacífico y su contribución a la formación de la cultura visual del conflicto. Por medio de un análisis de los recursos visuales y estéticos desplegados... more
Natthanai Prasannam. 2016. World War II in Boonpong, the Television Biopic: Counter-Memory and Transnational Memory. Silapawatthanatham, 37.7 (May): 130-149
In Thomas Hürlimann’s Familienroman Fourty Roses the elements of the Jewish culture and the memory problems are virtually conspicuous. Most studies of family novels or generation novels (Generationenromane) put their focus on the identity... more
ABSTRACT An under theorized area of Dark and War Tourism studies concerns the appropriation of tours for the perpetuation of political propaganda. Taking the case of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea... more