Brigitte Sion

Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires

Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror in Buenos Aires. Sion offers an interdisciplinary model for analyzing sites of memory, their purpose, failure and success, and their part in a transnational circuit of remembrance practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780739176306
• ISBN-10: 0739176307
• Artikelnr.: 41376314

Autorenporträt

Brigitte Sion is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Columbia University and the MATRICE Research Institute in Paris. She has written extensively on the global politics of memory and commemorative practices, particularly in Germany, Argentina, Cambodia, Poland, and France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Parque de la
Memoria in Historical Context
Chapter 2: Commemorating Absent Bodies
Chapter 3: Self-Indicting Monuments
Chapter 4: Embodied Memory
Chapter 5: Death Tourism and Architourism
Chapter 6: Multitasking Memorials
Conclusion