Remembering Mass Violence Oral History, New Media and Performance

Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events.This anthology is global in focus, with essays on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. At its core is a productive tension between public and private memory, a dialogue between autobiography and biography, and between individual experience and societal transformation. Remembering Mass Violence will appeal to oral historians, digital practitioners and performance-based artists around the world, as well researchers and activists involved in human rights research, migration studies, and genocide studies.

Steven High is professor of History at Concordia University and co-founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.Edward Little is a professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University. Thi Ry Duong is the coordinator of the Cambodian Working Group with the Montreal Life Stories Project.

“Remembering Mass Violence weaves together a diverse and fascinating series of narratives, be they academic, creative, or witness accounts, while also highlighting media-enhanced and art-inspired appropriations and interpretations of trauma testimonies.”Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Department of Religion and Culture, St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan“This is an innovative, interesting project. The investments of each of the authors are admirable; their concerns are important. Drawing on ‘new media’ and other innovative art forms, the contributors bridge personal memory, public knowledge, and history.”Pamela Sugiman, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University

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• ISBN Remembering Mass Violence: Oral History, New Media and Performance book English 376 pages