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The Language of Gendered Violence and Sexual Aggression in the Spanish Civil War: Conceptualizations and Reassessments

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the conceptual vocabulary through which violence against women during the Spanish Civil War has been interpreted, with particular attention to the longstanding predominance of the category ‘sexed violence’ (violencia sexuada).
SABINA MOMPÓ TORIBIO
wiley   +1 more source

New ethical questions and social media: young people’s construction of Holocaust memory online [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Much of the discourse about the ethics of Holocaust representation considers it a sacred event that imposes representational limits. Survivors are often considered “authorities” of Holocaust memory.
Walden, Victoria Grace
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When First Nations Don't Count: H.V. Evatt and the Erasure of Palestinian Rights

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
As Minister for External Affairs in the Chifley Government, Herbert Vere Evatt played a pivotal role at the United Nations in securing the partition of Palestine and recognition of the State of Israel. These endeavours were represented by Evatt and in subsequent commentary as exemplifying Evatt's commitment to justice.
Jeff Rickertt
wiley   +1 more source

Memory of the Kindertransport in Britain and Germany, and the current refugee crisis

open access: yesDiasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2020
This article sets out to categorise and analyse the ways Holocaust memory can be supportively deployed. It does so by example of memory of the Kindertransport, the rescue of over 10,000 Jewish children from Nazism prior to the outbreak of the Second ...
Amy Williams, Bill Niven
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Germany and Israel have not succeeded in turning their historical connection into a shared project around which a true friendship can form. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Felix Berenskoetter argues that a shared commitment to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel’s right to exist has not formed a true friendship between Germany and Israel.
Berenskoetter, Felix
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Introduction to the special issue – disputed Holocaust memory in Poland

open access: yesHolocaust Studies, 2019
The politics of Holocaust memory in Poland has for many decades been an arena of dispute and, at times, bitter public controversy, as with the disputes over the Auschwitz Carmelite convent in the 1980s and Jedwabne in the 2000s.
L. Ray, S. Kapralski
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Australian Royal Commissions Into Child Welfare, Abuse and Protection

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Both nationally and internationally, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (RCIRCSA) is widely viewed as a remarkably successful public inquiry. Unlike many other commissions, it was stable, attracted little controversy, was highly regarded, and led to extensive legal, regulatory and policy reform ...
Shurlee Swain, Katie Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Traumatic pasts, literary afterlives, and transcultural memory : new directions of literary and media memory studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article presents new directions of literary and media memory studies. It distinguishes between (1) the study of "traumatic pasts", i.e. representations of war and violence in literature and other media, (2) diachronic and intermedial approaches to ...
Erll, Astrid
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Miejsca napięć pamięci Zagłady w Polsce w kontekście tendencji we współczesnej Europie

open access: yesPoliteja
SITES OF TENSION OF MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST IN POLAND IN THE CONTEXT OF TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE Many researchers, among them Jacques Le Goff, have stressed the significance of memory of the past as a determinant in the struggle for power and
Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs
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From Tell Ye Your Children to Dinner with Polpot: the challenges of globalizing Holocaust memories at Sweden’s Living History Forum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Established in 2003 as Europe’s first publically funded national educational authority on the Holocaust, tolerance, democracy and human rights, Sweden’s Living History Forum (LHF) lies at the intersection of global, national and local Holocaust ...
Allwork, Larissa
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