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Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires: Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism

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Description for Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires: Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism Hardback. .
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin, inaugurated in 2005, and the Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism within the Memory Park (Parque de la Memoria) in Buenos Aires, partially unveiled in 2007, have been controversial from start to finish. While these sites differ in many respects, Germany and Argentina share a history of dictatorial regimes that murdered civilians on a massive scale. The Nazis implemented the genocide of millions of Jews and other minorities during World War II. In Argentina, the junta-led state repression was responsible for the “disappearance” and subsequent murder of thousands of civilians between ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
150
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739176306
SKU
V9780739176306
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About Brigitte Sion
Brigitte Sion is a post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Columbia University and the MATRICE Research Institute in Paris. She has written extensively on the global politics of memory and commemorative practices, particularly in Germany, Argentina, Cambodia, Poland, and France.

Reviews for Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires: Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism
Monuments address the past, but they also have a future, as Brigitte Sion demonstrates in her thoughtful analysis of two public memory sites that recall brutal acts of state-run mass terror. This detailed, thoroughly researched study raises key questions for considering the afterlife of memorials. Sion attends carefully to the uniqueness of each memorial, while also teasing out issues common ... Read more

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