Output details
24 - Anthropology and Development Studies
London School of Economics and Political Science : A - Anthropology
Book title
After the event: the transmission of grievous loss in Germany, China and Taiwan
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Berghahn Books
ISBN of book
9780857450869
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
After the event is the outcome of an extended period of work (from 2002-2009) on especially sensitive topics related to state violence and its aftermath. The research entailed bringing together very different experiences of traumatic events in China, Taiwan and Germany, carrying out new empirical research in all three places, and working through the complex analytical connections and disconnections between the case studies. The book compares popular genres of oral history with the records and teachings of state institutions (e.g. as found in archives) in order to mount a critique of scholarly notions of social and collective memory.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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