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Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence. Using examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins analyzes the practices of memory rituals through memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, in an original contribution to the study of memory.
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Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence in the first place. Taking examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins discusses the practices of memory such as memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, and makes an original contribution to the study of memory.
About the Author:
Jenny Edkins is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Her publications include Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid (2000), Poststructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In (1999) and, with Nalini Persram and Veronique Pin-Fat, Sovereignty and Subjectivity (1999).
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0521826969
- ISBN 13 9780521826969
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages284
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