Alejandro Baer

El Testimonio audiovisual es un trabajo de metodología reflexiva sobre el tratamiento de la memoria y su registro audiovisual. Alejandro Baer, profesor y especialista en temas de comunicación, trata el tema del Holocausto judío a través del testimonio oral y visual de supervivientes del mismo. Sólo que, en lugar de ir al encuentro directo de los testigos, el autor ha puesto su atención sobre quienes, de una u otra manera, se ocupan de su memoria.

imagen y memoria del Holocausto

El testimonio audiovisual

Natan Sznaider

To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be remembered? In this book the authors examine the effects of a globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and groups understand the moral and political significance of their respective histories of extreme political violence. Do such transnational memories facilitate or hamper the task of coming to terms with and overcoming divisive pasts? Taking Argentina, Spain and a number of sites in post-communist Europe as test cases, this book illustrates the transformation from a nationally oriented ethics to a trans-national one. The authors look at media, scholarly discourse, NGOs dealing with human rights and memory, museums and memorial sites, and examine how a new generation of memory activists revisits the past to construct a new future. Baer and Sznaider follow these attempts to manoeuvre between the duties of remembrance and the benefits of forgetting. This, the authors argue, is the "ethics of Never Again."

Alejandro Baer

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