Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin [electronic resource] /
Dekel, I.author.
Analyzing action at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, this first ethnography of the site offers a fresh approach to studying the memorial and memory work as potential civic engagement of visitors with themselves and others rather than with history itself.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Memorial with no things""; ""Already broken""; ""Spectatorship and mediation""; ""The book's structure""; ""1 Navigating Experience""; ""Â1 Studying the Holocaust Memorial""; ""1.1 Defining experience: entering the memorial""; ""1.2 The transformation of experience: pedagogy in the Information Center""; ""1.3 Making the feelings concrete: the rule of experience""; ""Â2 The memorial space""; ""2.1 Invented space""; ""2.2 Empty space""; ""2.3 Accidental space""; ""Â3 Landscape and history""
""3.1 From abundance to absence of meaning""""3.2 Creating the palimpsest of meaning""; ""3.3 Attempts toward comprehension""; ""Â4 Transferring trauma?""; ""4.1 From architecture of trauma to architecture of feelings""; ""2 Spheres of Speakability: Old and New Discursive Modes""; ""Â1 From cultural to communicative memory and back""; ""1.1 What is speakability?""; ""Â2 Witnessing""; ""2.1 Witnessing ourselves: Jews as ordinary people""; ""2.2 Guilt/shame""; ""2.3 Performing silence""; ""2.4 Provoking knowledge""; ""2.5 Projecting other groups and ourselves""
""Conclusion: moving from the abstract to the concrete through the Jews""""3 Memory in Action: New Ethics of Engagement with Holocaust Memory""; ""Â1 Two narratives of moral experience in the memorial""; ""1.1 The narrative of showing and disclosing emotions""; ""1.2 The narrative of change""; ""Â2 Three phases in visitors' moral career""; ""2.1 'Getting in': moral career and judgment in the memorial""; ""2.2 'Getting lost': memorial moves, limitation and liberation""; ""2.3 'Getting it': duty to oneself and the realization of the public""; ""Conclusion""
""4 Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial""""Â1 Dislocating narratives: victimhood, suffering and survival""; ""Â2 From knowledge toward experience""; ""2.1 The work of archives in the Information Center""; ""2.2 From documentation to transformation to mediation""; ""2.3 Types of representation and the creation of others""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Analyzing action at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, this first ethnography of the site offers a fresh approach to studying the memorial and memory work as potential civic engagement of visitors with themselves and others rather than with history itself.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Social history.
Europe—History.
History, Modern.
Culture.
Culture—Study and teaching.
World War, 1939-1945.
Social History.
European History.
Modern History.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.