Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment - Couverture rigide

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Tumolo, Michael Warren

 
9781611478129: Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembrance and Sociopolitical Judgment
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 161147812X ISBN 13 : 9781611478129
Editeur : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Just Remembering: Rhetorics of Genocide Remembranceand Sociopolitical Judgment analyzes a set of influential discourses of genocide remembrance to explain how public memory discourses inform sociopolitical judgment. Within this explanatory context, Just Remembering additionally asks how we might remember pasts marked by genocidal violence in ways that commit ourselves to a deeper understanding and more humane practice of justice.

The chapters are thematically organized, focusing on specific sites of memory to highlight symbolic inducements of memorial discourses. Chapter 2 analyzes U.S. public discourse concerning an "Armenian Genocide" resolution to elucidate the role of politics in the production, dissemination, and maintenance of memory. Chapter 3 offers a historical account of the shift in public discourse concerning the capture of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, demonstrating how and with what consequences the discourses shifted from a focus on law to a focus on morality. Chapter 4 expands this work by analyzing how competing narrative accounts of historical figures and events (Eichmann and the Holocaust) influence what we remember, how we remember, and the ends to which we apply such memories. Chapter 5 analyzes the Report of the President's Commission on the Holocaust that produced the United States' official remembrance of the Holocaust. This chapter argues that the Commission Report provides an exemplary explanation for why we should remember and provokes a complex understanding of what we are to remember. Chapter 6 concludes the book by focusing on the productive capacity of the humanitarian aims of U.S. Holocaust remembrance.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael Tumolo is assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, Stanislaus.

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Éditeur
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
161147812X
ISBN 13 
9781611478129
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
110
Coordonnées du fabricant
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