Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

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.

Autorentext
Irit Dekel is Postdoctoral fellow in the Social Sciences department in Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany and teaches at ECLA of Bard in Berlin. She has published on memory politics in Germany and Israel, media, and memory tourism.

Inhalt
Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1. Navigating Experience: Studying the Holocaust Memorial 2. Spheres of Speakability: Old and New Discursive Modes 3. Memory in Action: New Ethics of Engagement with Holocaust Memory 4. Mediation at the Holocaust Memorial Conclusion