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Contemporary PerforMemory
Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
An interdisciplinary research journey, introducing the new idea of PerforMemory through a study of contemporary dance-making in Europe, Taiwan, the Caribbean and the USA.
Zones of Tradition - Places of Identity
Cities and Their Heritage
The vitality of urban heritage lies less in its historical and spatial formations than in the dynamic and often conflictual processes of social appropriation and interpretation.
Thomas Lahusen
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Schamma Schahadat
(eds.)
Postsocialist Landscapes
Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang
This volume explores the traces of socialism in very different parts of the world today, from East Central Europe to North Korea, in private as well as in public spaces.
Susi K. Frank
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Kjetil A. Jakobsen
(eds.)
Arctic Archives
Ice, Memory and Entropy
In the context of anthropocene the volume aims at investigating the Arctic as an endangered archive of natural as well as human history in its various semantics.
Zuzanna Dziuban
(ed.)
The »Spectral Turn«
Jewish Ghosts in the Polish Post-Holocaust Imaginaire
This book provides a critical analysis of the emergent figure of the Jewish ghost in contemporary Polish popular culture, literature, critical art, and academic research.
Benedikt Jager
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Steffi Hobuß
(eds.)
(Post)Colonial Histories – Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in the Context of the Angolan Civil War
In which way interact (post)colonial discourses with memory discourses? This anthology deals with these questions with the film "My heart of darkness" as a starting point.
Elisabeth Cheauré
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Regine Nohejl
(eds.)
Humour and Laughter in History
Transcultural Perspectives
By using examples from different cultures and different historical epochs this book shows how humour can be used as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis.
Memory Boxes
An Experimental Approach to Cultural Transfer in History, 1500-2000
This volume applies the practical approach of the concept of memory box to understand different cases of cultural transfer and exchange as well as to analyse them in relation to the concept of cultural memory.
Judith Schlehe
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Evamaria Sandkühler
(eds.)
Religion, Tradition and the Popular
Transcultural Views from Asia and Europe
Asia and Europe: a rapid development of religious popular cultures and lifestyles can be observed. This book provides unique case studies illustrating new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization.
Barbara Korte
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Doris Lechner
(eds.)
History and Humour
British and American Perspectives
Can history be humorous? This volume discusses humorous approaches to history in Britain and the US from 1800 to the present.