Author

Publication

2013 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

55,000 words, Guess

Page Count

220 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781299717329
  • ISBN-101299717322
  • Better World Books9781299717329
  • Open LibraryOL39509634M

Description

Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin offers a novel approach to the memorial and its study through the focus on performances. Based on extensive ethnographic research, and drawing on dramaturgic theory, memory studies and theories of the public sphere, the book offers a fresh theorization of memorial experience by analyzing interaction between guides, memorial workers and visitors. Moving away from models of postmemory and post trauma approaches, the book recognizes the precariousness and variation of memory work done at the memorial through the ways visitors engages with the act of remembrance rather than with its object, namely the history of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. This engagement explores how visitors present and perform their 'moral career' at the site, whose codes have been shaped by knowledge about and visits in this and other sites of Holocaust remembrance.

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Other Editions

  • Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in BerlinPalgrave Macmillan2013

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