| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 259 pages) : illustrations |
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Palgrave Macmillan memory studies |
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Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Who is the the memorial for? -- 3. Issues of representation -- 4. Different ways of understanding individual victims: names, photographs and the void -- 5. Designs that attempt to resist the completion of memory -- 6. Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book is a study of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions of the 1990s, with a focus on designs that kindle empathetic responses. Through analysis of provocative designs, the book engages with issues of empathy, secondary witnessing, and depictions of concentration camp iconography. It explores the relationship between empathy and cultural memory when representations of suffering are notably absent. The book submits that one design represents the idea of an uncanny memorial, and also pays attention to viewer co-authorship in counter-monuments. Analysis of counter-monuments also include their creative engagement with German history and their determination to defy fascist aesthetics. As the winning design for The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is abstract with an information centre, there is an exploration of the memorial museum. Callaghan asks whether this configuration is intended to compensate for the abstract memorials ambiguity or to complement the designs visceral potential. Other debates explored concern political memory, national memory, and the controversy of dedicating the memorial exclusively to murdered Jews |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Holocaust memorials -- Germany -- Berlin -- Case studies
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Holocaust memorials -- Germany -- Berlin -- Planning
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Holocaust memorials -- Social aspects
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Collective memory.
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Empathy.
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Social psychology.
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Empathy
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Psychology, Social
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empathy.
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social psychology.
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Collective memory
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Empathy
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Holocaust memorials
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Social psychology
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Germany -- Berlin
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030509323 |
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303050932X |
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