Memory in a Global Age

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Aleida Assmann, Sebastian Conrad

      Pages 1-16

3. Witnessing in a Global Arena

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Addressing Painful Memories: Apologies as a New Practice in International Relations

      • Christopher Daase

      Pages 19-31

   3. Australian Memory and the Apology to the Stolen Generations of Indigenous People

      • Danielle Celermajer, A. Dirk Moses

      Pages 32-58

4. Moral Claims and Universal Norms

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. The Past in the Present: Memories of State Violence in Contemporary Latin America

      • Elizabeth Jelin

      Pages 61-78

   3. Vietnam, the New Left and the Holocaust: How the Cold War Changed Discourse on Genocide

      • Berthold Molden

      Pages 79-96

   4. The Holocaust — a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community

      • Aleida Assmann

      Pages 97-117

5. Global Memories and Transnational Identities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Globalization, Universalism, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory

      • Jan Assmann

      Pages 121-137

   3. Victimhood Nationalism in Contested Memories: National Mourning and Global Accountability

      • Jie-Hyun Lim

      Pages 138-162

   4. Remembering Asia: History and Memory in Post-Cold War Japan

      • Sebastian Conrad

      Pages 163-177

6. Global Icons and Cultural Symbols

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Globalizing Memory in a Divided City: Bruce Lee in Mostar

      • Grace Bolton, Nerina Muzurović

      Pages 181-198

   3. ‘Fragments of Reminiscence’: Popular Music as a Carrier of Global Memory

      • Ana Sobral

      Pages 199-224

   4. Neda — the Career of a Global Icon

      • Aleida Assmann, Corinna Assmann

      Pages 225-242

7. Back Matter

   Pages 243-252

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A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies.

• communication
• communication studies
• community
• Generation
• Genocide
• globalization
• history
• Holocaust
• international relations
• memory
• Moral
• Nation
• nationalism
• politics
• violence

'A serious, scholarly and essential intervention into memory studies. Using the lens of globalization, the book clearly shows how memory should be understood dynamically beyond states and nations. A lively and rich range of original work by leading scholars in the field.'

- Dr Anna Reading, London South Bank University, UK

• University of Konstanz, Germany

  Aleida Assmann

• Free University of Berlin, Germany

  Sebastian Conrad

CORINNA ASSMANN MA in English and German Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany JAN ASSMANN Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at Heidelberg University and Professor Hon. at Konstanz University, Germany GRACE BOLTON MPhil Candidate in International Relations at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK DANIELLE CELERMAJER Director of European Union funded project Asia Pacific Masters of Human Rights and Democratisation CHRISTOPHER DAASE Chair for International Organization at the University of Frankfurt, Germany ELIZABETH JELIN Senior Researcher of Sociology at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina JIE-HYUN LIM Professor of Modern History at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea BERTHOLD MOLDEN Coordinating Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres in Vienna, Austria A. DIRK MOSES Associate Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia NERINA MUZUROVIC PhD Candidate at the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Chicago, USA ANA SOBRAL PhD Candidate at the University of Konstanz, Germany

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