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Welche Rolle spielen die »Familienerinnerungen« von Ludwig Wittgensteins Schwester Hermine bei der Entwicklung des Wittgenstein'schen Familiengedächtnisses? Nicole L. Immler untersucht die Biographieforschung zu Wittgenstein und bietet eine quellenkritische Analyse seiner autobiographischen Reflexionen und deren Verknüpfung mit seinen philosophischen Gedanken. Die Studie geht den Konstruktionsprinzipien von Erzählung, Erinnerung und Identität nach, zeigt die mitunter dramatischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Autobiographie und Familiengedächtnis und die Verschränkungen von Texten von bzw. über Lu

Wachsende Oral History-Archive weltweit beherbergen abertausende von Interviews, zur Gewaltgeschichte des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts ebenso wie zur Sozialgeschichte verlorener wie gegenwärtiger Lebenswelten. Das digitale Zeitalter macht viele dieser Interviews öffentlich zugänglich. Doch welche Herausforderungen ergeben sich daraus für Wissenschaft und Lehre? Um diese Frage geht es in diesem Aufsatz. An der Universität für Humanistik in Utrecht unterrichte ich das Fach "Narrative Research and Oral History: Theory, Method and Practice". In meinem Seminar sprechen Zeitzeugen und Zeitzeuginnen durch ihre Egodokumente zu den Studierenden. Der Kurs bringt Selbstzeugnisse, Oral History und narrative Theorie in einen Dialog und erschließt damit den Studierenden die narrative Dimension des menschlichen Daseins. Ich zeige, in welcher Weise narrative (Erzähl-)Theorien hilfreich sind, um Oral History-Interviews in ihrer Komplexität zu analysieren; um simplifizierte Identitätskonstruktionen oder Zuschreibungskategorien wie "Generation" oder "Trauma" kritisch zu reflektieren sowie Potentiale und Risiken in Narrativen zu verorten. Mit diesem Aufsatz möchte ich auch der Debatte über das "Re-Using" von Oral History aus digitalisierten Datenbanken einen Impuls geben.

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) programme in 2010 as a success story for the cities and member states involved, the European Commission also registered a 'lack of Europe' in the programme. This is reflected in the scholarly literature, which has largely focused on the title's effects on individual cities rather than on its effects on Europe. The starting-point of this article is the demand of the European Commission for a stricter implementation of new guidelines developed since 2006 for enhancing the European dimension. After situating the history of the event and its idea of 'unity in diversity' within the wider context of thoughts on Europe as an 'imagined community', this article investigates how Europe is presented in earlier and more recent ECoC bidbooks and programmes. We argue that an observed slight shift in the programme's content, from a competition-based marketing of local identity towards a more universal value discourse, could be read as a first step towards (re)formulating the European dimension. We suggest that this emerging value paradigm also illustrates how such cultural programmes as a kind of laboratory could contribute to a conceptual reflection on (and beyond) Europe.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice / Adler, Nanci -- Part I: The complex relationship between truth and justice -- 1. Swinging the Pendulum: Fin-de-Siècle Historians in the Courts / Petrović, Vladimir -- 2. Time, Justice, and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth? / Schabas, William A. -- 3. How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty / Sarkin, Jeremy -- 4. New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the Information, Dialogue, and Process (IDP) Approach to Transitional Justice / Parmentier, Stephan / Rauschenbach, Mina / Craen, Maarten van -- Part II: The narrative of the trial record -- 5. The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals / Wilson, Richard Ashby -- 6. The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source / Bouwknegt, Thijs B. -- Part III: The afterlife of transitional justice processes -- 7. Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-Up Reflections on a Postcolonial Setting—The Rawagede Case / Immler, Nicole L. -- 8. Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia / Nielsen, Christian Axboe -- 9. Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures / Williams, Timothy -- 10. Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh / Anderson, Kjell -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice—be it slavery or colonization, forced sterilization or widespread atrocities—has enduring consequences that generate ongoing harm, which needs to be addressed as a matter of justice and equity.Time for Reparations provides a wealth of detailed and diverse examples of state injustice, from enslavement of African Americans in the United States and Roma in Romania, to colonial exploitation and brutality in Guatemala, Algeria, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Guadeloupe. From many vantage points, contributing authors discuss different reparative strategies and the impact they would have on the lives of survivor or descent communities.One of the strengths of this book is its interdisciplinary perspective—contributors are historians, anthropologists, human rights lawyers, sociologists, and political scientists. Many of the authors are both scholars and advocates, actively involved in one capacity or another in the struggles for reparations they describe. The book therefore has a broad and inclusive scope, aided by an accessible and cogent writing style. It appeals to scholars, students, advocates and others concerned about addressing some of the most profound and enduring injustices of our time