The Memory of Power and Abuse of Power

This volume approaches the memory of abuses of power in past and present societies from a transdisciplinary perspective. On the one hand, methodological approaches and schemes of analysis are developed from the point of view of philosophy and theory of history, history didactics, literary studies, anthropology, and Church and religious history. On the other hand, the contributions deal with case studies that pay special attention to the Holocaust, mass violence and war, the history of slavery, missionary history, and sexual abuse. The focus is on narratives of memory, politics of history, the relation between historiography, public memory, restitution, and reparation, but also on empowerment and participation in civil society and by victims of violence in the creation of public memory, spaces of commemoration, and memorials regarding instances of abuse of power.