Genocide and the Politics of Memory: Studying Death to Preserve LifeUniv of North Carolina Press, 2000 M11 9 - 256 páginas More than sixty million people have been victims of genocide in the twentieth century alone, including recent casualties in Bosnia and Rwanda. Herbert Hirsch studies repetitions of large-scale human violence in order to ascertain why people in every historical epoch seem so willing to kill each other. He argues that the primal passions unleashed in the cause of genocide are tied to the manipulation of memory for political purposes. According to Hirsch, leaders often invoke or create memories of real or fictitious past injustices to motivate their followers to kill for political gain or other reasons. Generations pass on their particular versions of events, which then become history. If we understand how cultural memory is created, Hirsch says, we may then begin to understand how and why episodes of mass murder occur and will be able to act to prevent them. In order to revise the politics of memory, Hirsch proposes essential reforms in both the modern political state and in systems of education. |
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History as Memory The Influence of Time and Paradigm | 16 |
The Manipulation of Memory and Political Power | 23 |
STUDYING DEATH | 37 |
CONSTRUCTING MEMORY SURVIVORS AND THEORISTS | 39 |
Primo Levi Recording Memory and Teaching Humanity | 43 |
TRANSMITTING MEMORY WHY PEOPLE KILL | 95 |
The Language of Extermination | 97 |
The Socialization of Memory Teaching Obedience in Nazi Germany | 109 |
Learning to Obey Creating the Conditions for Genocide | 123 |
Memory and Identity Developing Self in the Context of Politics | 133 |
PRESERVING LIFE | 157 |
Where Do We Go from Here? Memory and Resocialization to Preserve Life | 161 |
Memory and the Politics of Preserving Life Preventing Genocide in the PostCold War World | 181 |
Memory and Survival A Reconsideration of the BettelheimDes Pres Debate | 56 |
EXPLAINING MEMORY POSITIVIST AND INTERPRETIVE SOCIAL SCIENCE | 71 |
Trivializing Human Memory Social Science Methods and Genocide Scholarship | 73 |
Robert Jay Lifton Memory and Mass Death | 83 |
Memory Hope and Triumph over Evil | 213 |
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Genocide and the Politics of Memory: Studying Death to Preserve Life Herbert Hirsch Vista previa limitada - 1995 |
Genocide and the Politics of Memory: Studying Death to Preserve Life Herbert Hirsch Vista de fragmentos - 1995 |
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