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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"memory culture"”.
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Memory Culture of WWII in Southeastern Europe: The Case of Western Crete
… διπλωματική εργασία εξετάζει τη μνήμη κουλτούρα (memory culture) του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου στη Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη, θέτοντας μια τοπική μελέτη περίπτωσης της Δυτικής Κρήτης σε σύγκριση με τη μετα-γιουγκοσλαβική περιοχή και το ελληνικό εθνικό πλαίσιο. Αντλώντας από τις έννοιες της Aleida Assmann …
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Contested Memories: The Role of Victim Rivalry in Shaping Heritage and Memory at the Concentration Camps of Dachau and Ulm – Oberer Kuhberg
This dissertation examines the memory culture discourse emerging from interactions with Difficult Heritage sites associated with genocide and trauma, specifically through the lens of 'victim rivalry.' Victim rivalry is defined as the phenomenon where groups or individuals engage in counter-victim …
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“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… with a convoluted political history and memory culture. With its cautionary tale of the Nazi movement turned regime, Germany provides an especially valuable context within which to study social memory’s relationship with contentious politics. Based on ten months of fieldwork in Dresden, …
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Uncanny Homelands: Disability, Race, and the Politics of Memory
… and comparative study of German and Italian memory culture after 1945. It examines how the interaction between memorials, litera-ture, historiography, and popular culture shapes a society's memory and identity. I focus on two marginalized aspects of the memory of the Holocaust: the Nazi …
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Uso e ocupação do solo e perspectivas turísticas do território do Porto do Capim, Varadouro, João Pessoa – PB.
… over keeping its strategic meaning to the memory, culture, patrimony and identity of João Pessoa. Recently, reliving public politics brought projects of changes in the places, removing the rivers to the building of ecologic parks in the territory, being a reason to an intense and wide …
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German Militant Ignorance towards Palestinian Experiences of Israeli Settler Colonialism
… intricate connections between German Holocaust memory and Germany’s position of power within colonial power dynamics. To capture the ways in which both act together to create Germany’s discourse on Palestine, it develops the concept of militant ignorance which it defined as an active production …
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Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Der Verlorene: Trans-Generational Trauma, Guilt And Shame
… Against the backdrop of this shift in German memory politics, this thesis examines literary negotiations of the current 'victim debate', using Hans-Ulrich Treichel's prose text Der Verlorene (1998) as a primary example. Der Verlorene dramatizes a childhood dominated by an irrevocable loss. The …
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Exploring methodologies to capture subjective impressions of city spaces
… elicit responses about perception relating to memory, culture, state of mind, and social interactions were explored. Participants were given a series of descriptive words and were asked to record an image in the Square that matched the word. They were also asked to express their impressions of …
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Black-Affirming Curriculum: An Analysis of the Pedagogy, Sociocultural Perspectives, and Ways of Being in Out-of-School Programming
… critical, and liberatory knowledge base of Black culture? (1a) What are examples of African tradition, history, language, and culture in the curriculum? (2) What elements of Black-affirming curriculum in OST contexts can be leveraged to disrupt curricular frameworks shaped by historical and …
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From the Battlefield to the Archive: Tracing Testimony in Holocaust Memory
… the evolving role of testimony in shaping public memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As the last generation of eyewitnesses passes, societies increasingly rely on preserved, mediated forms of testimony to understand and remember traumatic pasts. Testimony, whether handwritten, oral, visual, …
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The Afterlives of the Dissolution of the Monasteries, 1536-c. 1700
… who experienced it or to the evolution of this memory in later generations. This thesis probes the nature of the diverse afterlives of the dissolution between 1536 and c. 1700. On one hand, it seeks to account for the persistence of the narratives of monastic corruption and the expediency of …
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What’s in a face? Reframing the expressive portraiture of third century Roman emperors
… third-century Roman emperors through the lens of memory—both cultural and cognitive. Traditionally interpreted as visualizations of military severity, personal cruelty, or psychological instability, these emotive images—marked by furrowed brows, tensed musculature, and averted gazes—have often …
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Erinnerungskultur in Belarus nach 1945
Fünfundsiebzig Jahre nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs steht die heutige Erinnerungskultur vor großen Herausforderungen. Immer weniger Überlebende können persönliches Zeugnis des Erlebten ablegen. Während sich seit den 1980er Jahren hat in der westlichen Welt eine gesellschaftliche und …
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The Politics of History and the "Prussia-Renaissance" in the German Democratic Republic, 1968-1987
This dissertation examines the phenomenon of the ‘Prussia-Renaissance’ in the German Democratic Republic (the GDR) during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It explores the cultural and political reasons why the official histories of the communist East German state began during this period to …
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Olhares cruzados sobre a consciência social feminina através de algumas obras de Ana Paula Tavares, Florbela Espanca, Paulina Chiziane e Teolinda Gersão
A presente dissertação visa empreender uma abordagem comparatista que procurará relacionar entre si as obras poéticas, Ritos de Passagem de Tavares e Charneca em Flor de Florbela, por um lado, e por outro, na qualidade de ficção narrativa, Balada de Amor ao Vento de Chiziane e O Silêncio de Gersão, …