Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations....Pages 19-31
Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People....Pages 32-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America....Pages 61-78
Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide....Pages 79-96
The Holocaust — a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community....Pages 97-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Globalization, Universalism, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory....Pages 121-137
Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability....Pages 138-162
Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan....Pages 163-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar....Pages 181-198
‘Fragments of Reminiscence’: Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory....Pages 199-224
Neda — the Career of a Global Icon....Pages 225-242
Back Matter....Pages 243-252