Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires : balancing memory, architecture, and tourism

Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires : balancing memory, architecture, and tourism / Brigitte Sion.

This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror in Buenos Aires. Sion offers an interdisciplinary model for analyzing sites of memory, their purpose, failure and success, and their part in a transnati...

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Main Author: Sion, Brigitte, 1970- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Subjects:
Holocaust memorials > Germany > Berlin.
War memorials > Argentina > Buenos Aires.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture.
Architecture and tourism > Germany.
Architecture and tourism > Argentina.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Architecture and tourism
Buildings
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and architecture
Holocaust memorials
War memorials
Berlin (Germany) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Buenos Aires (Argentina) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Argentina
Argentina > Buenos Aires
Germany
Germany > Berlin
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Summary:This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror in Buenos Aires. Sion offers an interdisciplinary model for analyzing sites of memory, their purpose, failure and success, and their part in a transnational circuit of remembrance practices.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 129 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-126) and index.
ISBN:9780739176313
0739176315
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

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