Over the past decade, there has been a growing interest in how the memory of past crimes informs and shapes state policies and international relations. Social scientists, except historians, had largely ignored the Holocaust despite its centrality to many of their concepts and theories and the need to view the crime from the standpoint of various disciplines. A multidisciplinary perspective on the Holocaust is offered in the book „Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust“, published by Cornell University Press. One of the book’s editors, Dr. Jelena Subotić, spoke in a new podcast episode about the construction of desirable memories, the goals that states aim to achieve by manipulating memory, and the suppression of undesirable memories.
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