From the earliest years of the Internet's creation, cyberspace has been distinguished from
other types of political space because of three unique qualities:(i) its ability to mobilize users …

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the
character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire …

As we have seen, eyewitness testimony and individual experience have played a significant
role in shaping the socio-political debates surrounding collective memory of the GDR and …

Heimat is dead—long live Heimat! 1 There can be no doubt: the Heimat film genre, assumed
to be passé by so many, is alive and well. Who would have thought that this genre—which …

Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations
disappeared in favor of a unified'global village,'the new millennium has instead seen a …

The complex process of transition from communist dictatorship to democracy in Central and
Eastern Europe also involved the transformation of historiography which, during the …

Focusing on the Berlin Stasi prison memorial, Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen, this
article considers the role that memorialization might play in transitional justice as a form of …

This article examines the potential of the new media to provide space for the voicing of
traumatic pasts. Using the example of www. stasiopfer. de, a site dedicated to the victims of …

Based on the discussions around the proposed establishment of the Institute of National
Memory in the Czech Republic, the article aims to surpass the narrow political conflict and …

Based on original empirical research that includes 90 interviews with key leaders, this book
compares and contrasts negotiations during the processes of German unification and …