Contrapuntal Memories? Remembering the Holocaust in a Post-9/11 World

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ID12979160
AuthorsJacque Micieli‐Voutsinas (corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume7
Issue1
Pages49-68
Publication date2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1942-7786 • E-ISSN: 2633-674X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/194277861400700111
OpenAlexW2488568768
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited39

This essay traces the post-9/11 mapping of Holocaust memory throughout the United States as it converges with the U.S.-led war on terror and the memorialization of September 11th at the World Trade Center. For instance, comments made by George W. Bush during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns equated Barack Obama's advocacy for communications between the U.S. and former Iranian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the appeasement of Hitler at the onset of WWII. For scholars of memory, the (geo)political importance of such exchanges should not be taken lightly or go unnoticed. Building upon geographies of memory, as well as recent texts within Memory Studies, this essay theorizes the post-9/11 spatial diffusion of Holocaust memory as it is evoked and disseminated in relation to, and within, other landscapes of memory in order to shape the (geo)political present

Appeasement · Media studies · Memorialization · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Sociology · The Holocaust · World War II · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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