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Historical Distance and the Holocaust: Interactions Between Historians and Middle-Class Western Europeans in Memory Education - Couverture rigide

Van De Putte, Thomas

 
9789048573219: Historical Distance and the Holocaust: Interactions Between Historians and Middle-Class Western Europeans in Memory Education
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ISBN 10 : 9048573211 ISBN 13 : 9789048573219
Editeur : Pallas Publications, 2026

Synopsis

What happens when Holocaust historians leave their academic bubble and start interacting with laypeople? This book investigates practices and discourses of historical distance and their effects on vernacular understandings of the Holocaust among white, middle-class Europeans. In five chapters, Historical Distance and the Holocaust describes and explains how historians, in interactions with laypeople, strip the Holocaust of its moral meaning and emotional load, narrate it as a ‘system’, and use sick Holocaust humour as distancing strategy.

A detailed interactional analysis and thick ethnographic description demonstrate how the temporal, moral and emotional distancing practices reenforce the lay moralities and political subjectivities of the white middle-class. This comes with (mostly unintended) consequences. Distanced approaches to the Holocaust in non-academic environments reduce empathy for victims and survivors, normalize violence, disconnect the meaning of the Holocaust from contemporary conflict, and re-activate stereotypes about groups who employ more ‘close’ approaches to the Holocaust.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Van de Putte is assistant professor in Sociology at the University of Trento. He works on questions of collective Holocaust memory, combining perspectives from sociology, linguistics and cultural studies. He published his first monograph, Contemporary Auschwitz/ Oswiecim, in 2021, and his second monograph, Outsourcing the European Past, in 2024.

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Éditeur
Pallas Publications
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9048573211
ISBN 13 
9789048573219
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
180
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