Violence and Memory: Global memory in the 21st century

A global world needs a culture of remembrance that goes beyond geographical borders

In modern-day societies, people live side by side who are shaped by vastly different experiences of violence or discrimination, which stretch back at times across generations. Do they share a common narrative? Mirjam Zadoff sees history as a means of answering questions past and present. She collects examples from all over the world that show how the memory of historical violence is kept alive – or forgotten – in numerous ways, exploring issues such as the deportation of Jews in Italy, forced prostitution in Japan or colonialism in Johannesburg, to name just a few. In doing so, Zadoff spins a global web of memory culture connecting groups whose lives bear traces of violence.