Looks at the whole range of ways in which some countries' experience of atoning for past crimes come to be seen as models for others to follow and adapt
Uses the German model and looks at how it has come to be seen as exemplary in all sorts of different contexts
Brings together discussions from various fields connected with memory studies such as transitional justice and the study of cultural memory

Autorentext
Mischa Gabowitsch is a sociologist and historian and works at the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. He is the author of Protest in Putin's Russia (2016) and editor of several books on memory and commemoration published in Russian and German.

Inhalt

1. Replicating Atonement: The German Model and Beyond; Mischa Gabowitsch.- Part I Norms and Yardsticks.- 2. A Japan that Cannot Say Sorry?; Franziska Seraphim.- 3. Best Practices of Global Memory and the Politics of Atonement in Lebanon; Sune Haugbølle.- Part II The European Union and the Politics of Atonement.- 4. Lost in Transaction in Serbia and Croatia: Memory as Trade Currency; Lea David.- 5. Turkish Vergangenheitsbewältigung: The Unbearable Burden of the Past; Ayhan Kaya.- Part III Atonement Models as Springboards.- 6. Which commemorative models help? A case study from post-Yugoslavia; Jacqueline Nießer.- 7. Coming to terms with the Canadian past: Truth and reconciliation, Indigenous genocide, and the post-war German model; David B. MacDonald.- Part IV Distorted Representations.- 8. Murambi is not Auschwitz: The Holocaust in representations of the Rwandan genocide; Magorzata Wosiska.- 9.Meanwhile in Argentina: Cross-References and Distortions in Latin American Memory Discourses; Ralph Buchenhorst.- Part V Occidentalist Atonement.- 10. Memorial miracle: Inspiring Vergangenheitsbewältigung between Berlin and Istanbul; Alice von Bieberstein.- 11. Mourning and Warning: Soviet Intellectuals and German Atonement; Mischa Gabowitsch.- Part VI Personal Experiences.- 12. From guilty generation to expert generation? Personal reflections on second post-war generation West German atonement; Anja Mihr.- 13. Notes After Mississippi; Susan Neiman.