Book Reviews by Sahra Rausch
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The multi-and interdisciplinary volume Disputed Memory. Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, ... more The multi-and interdisciplinary volume Disputed Memory. Emotions and Memory Politics in Central, Eastern and SouthEastern Europe provides a variety of case studies to display the complexity and specificity of disputed pasts in this region. By trying to overcome a methodological nationalism and a " representation bias " in the study of memory, the volume aims at understanding the mediation and transmission of memories in their social contexts. Furthermore, the authors integrate the role of emotions in processes of memory making and politics – at first sight a new and interesting approach. While the volume successfully displays transnational memory movements in Eastern and SouthEastern Europe, the analysis of emotions in the assembled texts could have benefitted from integrating methods and theories from the already rich sociological and historical literature on the study of emotions. Abstract: The multi-and interdisciplinary volume Disputed Memory. Emotions and Memory Politics in Central,
The extensive volume Entangled Memories. Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age integrates man... more The extensive volume Entangled Memories. Remembering the Holocaust in a Global Age integrates manifold disciplinary backgrounds – from architecture, literary, and film studies to 'Holocaust Education' and its musealization. The volume positions itself between the tension of an increasing transnationalism in the field of memory studies and the persistence of the nation state to define commemorative practices in opposition to a globalized Holocaust memory. The edited volume thus aims at depicting different national remembrance cultures in their relation to supra-and subnational perspectives. While the volume successfully displays the multitude of literary, architectural, visual and theatre representations of the Holocaust, the meaning of " entanglement " could have been followed more profoundly to bind the different articles together theoretically.
Conference Presentations by Sahra Rausch
Attracting more than 600 attendees, featuring over 80 panels, five poster sessions, several film ... more Attracting more than 600 attendees, featuring over 80 panels, five poster sessions, several film screenings, working group dinners, and workshops, the second Memory Studies Association (MSA) annual conference was much larger than the relatively cameral inaugural session in Amsterdam a year before. The 2017 event was also preceded by the MSA Forward one-day doctoral workshop, indicating the Association's intention to provide significant support for early career researchers through scholarships and mentoring. Rather than working towards unifying the field, the nascent MSA brings together researchers and practitioners working on memory-related themes, providing a multidisciplinary network, which the content of the conference program reflects.
Books by Sahra Rausch
De Gruyter eBooks, Nov 16, 2023
Papers by Sahra Rausch
Klassismus und Wissenschaft - Erfahrungsberichte und Bewältigungsstrategien, 2020
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Hypothèses .., Jul 9, 2023
Hypothèses
RENCONTRES DE L’ÉCOLE DOCTORALE D’HISTOIRE DE L’UNIVERSITÉ PARIS1 PANTHÉON-SORBONNE Les émotions ... more RENCONTRES DE L’ÉCOLE DOCTORALE D’HISTOIRE DE L’UNIVERSITÉ PARIS1 PANTHÉON-SORBONNE Les émotions ont-elles une histoire? Samedi 29 février 2020, Salle Marc Bloch (17, rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris) de 14h00 à 17h00 Coordinatrice: Sahra RAUSCH Introduction de Laure CICCIONE, Marie GAUSSERON, Vincent LETHUMIER, Sahra RAUSCH et Emmanuelle REIMBOLD Laure CICCIONE, Les émotions et l’automobile à la Belle Époque, un nouvel imaginaire de l’action Dans l’introduction du troisième volume de l’Histoi..
De Gruyter eBooks, Mar 20, 2023
In July 2015, the German government used the term "genocide" in an official statement to refer to... more In July 2015, the German government used the term "genocide" in an official statement to refer to the mass killings of the OvaHerero, Nama, Damara, and San committed between 1904 and 1908 in the former colony 'German South West Africa'. The acknowledgement of past crimes in the present is often understood as a 'moral obligation'. However, this use of the term genocide was merely to be understood as a linguistic adjustment which rejected the OvaHerero's and Nama' claims for reparations. In this paper, I explore the construction of 'morality' and moral standards in Germany's postcolonial memory politics and how they affect the recognition of Germany's colonial past. Comparing the recognition of 2015 with the debates over the "reconciliation agreement" in 2021, the paper reveals the discrepancy between the recognition of the genocide and the misrecognition of the 'suffering of the others'. By conducting a discourse analysis of newspaper articles, press releases as well as governmental statements and initiatives by opposition parties, I reconstruct the ambivalences of the rhetorical recourse to morality: On the one hand, the recognition of the genocide becomes a moral obligation. On the other hand, the Ova-Herero's and Nama's demands for reparation are discursively placed outside Germany's moral understanding of how to acknowledge colonial crime. As a result, the established moral collective ideal is identified as the 'nation's' aim of 'successfully' coming to terms with its colonial past, thus perpetuating the misrecognition of the 'suffering of the others'.
Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, 2022
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Memory Studies, 2021
Following the globalisation of Holocaust memory in the 1990s, references to National Socialist cr... more Following the globalisation of Holocaust memory in the 1990s, references to National Socialist crimes turned into a practise initiated by postcolonial memory carriers to claim recognition and reparation for colonial crimes – often by taking legal steps to qualify colonial crime a crime against humanity. This article argues that the globalised Holocaust memory established a distinctive emotional order. Consequently, marginalised memory groups align with this order to find a voice in official memory politics. The article examines emotional discourses in the OvaHerero class actions against Germany filed in 2001. It shows how media coverage hindered the recognition of colonial crimes when compared with the Holocaust. However, a diachronic contrast with the analysis of the renewed lawsuit filed this time by representatives of the OvaHerero and the Nama in 2017 shows how emotional discourses changed over time and transformed both colonial and Holocaust memory.
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2024
State apologies and the related expression of emotions, such as guilt and repentance, are seen as... more State apologies and the related expression of emotions, such as guilt and repentance, are seen as an essential part of dealing with atrocious pasts. Against this view, the article analyzes from a postcolonial perspective the impact of emotions in the negotiation of state apologies in postcolonial memory politics. In a transnational comparative discourse analysis, I examine the conditions of the (im)possibility under which state apologies are discussed in public and media debates in 2021, focusing on the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) in France and the OvaHerero and Nama Genocide (1904–1908) in Germany. In France, public opinion rejects apologies as an act of “repentance.” In Germany, the planned apology becomes impossible because the government equals the “historical and moral responsibility” with development cooperation. Through a transnational comparison that analyzes the structuring effects of emotional discourses in memory politics, the article shows that dealing with the colonial past primarily follows the interests of the European nation-states, thus leaving the postcolonial power imbalances intact.
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