Book Reviews

Review Editors | Book Reviews

We welcome reviews from members of the network of recent publications on historical justice and memory. Please look out for calls for reviews in the Historical Justice and Memory Research Network Newsletter. If you would like to submit a review, please contact the relevant review editor.

Reviews could be in any major language – but please check with the review editors, because we need to be able to copy-edit reviews.

Review Editors

coordinating review editor:
Sonja Dechian
The Swinburne Institute for Social Research
Swinburne University of Technology
Australia
sdechian@swin.edu.au

review editor for all English-language titles:
Stephen Winter
Department of Political Studies
University of Auckland
New Zealand
s.winter@auckland.ac.nz

review editors for all Spanish-language titles:
Juan José Cruz
Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana
Universidad de La Laguna
Spain
jcruz@ull.es

and

Rosario Figari Layús
Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaft
Universität Konstanz
Germany
Rosario.Figari-Layus@uni-konstanz.de

review editor for all German-language titles:
Heike Karge
Institut für Geschichte
Universität Regensburg
Germany
Heike.Karge@geschichte.uni-regensburg.de

review editor for all Italian-language titles:
Patrizia Violi
Dipartimento Discipline della Comunicazione
Università di Bologna
Italy
patrizia.violi@unibo.it

review editor for all French-language titles:
Elizabeth Rechniewski
Department of French Studies
The University of Sydney
Australia
elizabeth.rechniewski@sydney.edu.au

Book Reviews 
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Christiane Grieb, University College London
Review of Julia Volmer-Naumann (2012) Bürokratische Bewältigung: Entschädigung für nationalsozialistische Verfolgte im Regierungsbezirk Münster.
8 February 2013

Elizabeth Rechniewski, University of Sydney
Review of Henry Rousso (2012) La dernière catastrophe: l’histoire, le présent, le contemporain.
5 February 2013

Aline Sierp, Maastricht University
Review of  Cillian McGrattan (2012) Memory, Politics and Identity: Haunted by History.
4 February 2013

Steven Cooke, Deakin University
Review of Gretchen Schafft and Gerhard  Zeidler (2011) Commemorating Hell: The Public Memory of Mittelbau-Dora.
2 February 2013

Elizabeth Rechniewski, University of Sydney
Review of Marcel and Paulette Péju (2011) Le 17 octobre des Algériens (including Gilles Manceron, La triple occultation d’un massacre).
23 January 2013

Elazar Barkan, Columbia University
Review of Thomas U. Berger (2012) War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II.
21 January 2013

Sally Carlton, Nepal Institute for Policy Studies
Review of Jean-Serge Massamba-Makoumbou (2012)  Politiques de la mémoire et résolution des conflit.
7 January 2013

Natan Sznaider, College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
Review of Katherine Hite (2012) Politics and the Art of Commemoration. Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain.
5 January 2013

Olivera Simic, Griffith University
Review of Jeff Spinner-Halev (2012) Enduring Injustice.
30 November 2012

Daniele Salerno, University of Bologna, Italy
Review of Valentina Pisanty (2012) Abusi di memoria. Negare, banalizzare, sacralizzare la Shoah.
16 November 2012

Adam Brown, Deakin University
Review of Camila Loew (2011) The Memory of Pain. Women’s Testimonies of the Holocaust.
24 October 2012

Sally Carlton, Nepal Institute for Policy Studies
Review of Rob Gildert and Dennis Rothermel (eds) (2011) Remembrance and Reconciliation.
1 October 2012

Martine Hawkes, Swinburne University of Technology
Review of Shelley Hornstein (2011) Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place.
24 September 2012

Olivera Simic, Griffith University
Review of Joy Sather-Wagstaff (2011) Heritage That Hurts: Tourists in the Memoryscapes of September 11.
9 August 2012

Vincent Druliolle, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Review of Alexander Hirsch (ed.) (2011) Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Agonism, Restitution & Repair.
9 August 2012

Monica Ciobanu, Plattsburgh State University of New York
Review of René Lemarchand (ed.) (2011) Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial and Memory.
27 July 2012

Rosario Figari Layús, University of Konstanz
Review of C.E.L.S. (2011) Hacer Justicia. Nuevos debates sobre el juzgamiento de crímenes de lesa humanidad en Argentina
26 July 2012

Francesco Mazzucchelli, University of Bologna
Review of Pier Paolo Portinaro (2011) I conti con il passato. Vendetta, amnistia, giustizia.
23 July 2012

Daniele Salerno, University of Bologna
Review of Franco Lo Piparo (2012) I due carceri di Gramsci. La prigione fascista e il labirinto comunista.
10 July 2012

Simon Robins, University of York
Review of Susanne Buckley-Zistel and Ruth Stanley (eds) (2011) Gender in Transitional Justice.
4 July 2012

Alexander Cook, University of California, Berkeley
Review of Jennifer Balint (2011) Genocide, State Crime, and the Law: In the Name of the State.
29 June 2012

Hüseyin Cicek, University of Innsbruck
Review of Aleida Assmann (2012) Auf dem Weg zu einer europäischen Gedächtniskultur?.
29 June 2012

Martin O. Heisler, University of Maryland
Review of Bergerson et al (2011) The Happy Burden of History: From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood.
13 June 2012

Klaus Neumann, Swinburne University of Technology
Review of Tomaz Jardim (2012) The Mauthausen Trial: American Military Justice in Germany.
11 June 2012

Michael Humphrey, University of Sydney
Review of Layla Renshaw (2011) Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War.
3 May 2012

Jonathan Bach, The New School
Review of Shelley Hornstein (2011) Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place.
21 February 2012

Stephen Gapps, Australian National Maritime Museum
Review of Joanna Rostek (2011) Seaing Through the Past: Postmodern Histories and the Maritime Metaphor in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction.
18 January 2012

Jason Edwards, Bridgewater State University
Review of Kendall R. Phillips and G. Mitchell Reyes (eds) (2011) Global Memoryscapes: Contesting Remembrance in a Transnational Age.
14 January 2012

Hüseyin Cicek, University of Innsbruck
Review of Anja Sieber Egger (2011) Krieg im Frieden: Frauen in Bosnien-Herzegowina und ihr Umgang mit der Vergangenheit.
17 November 2011

Juan Jose Cruz, Universidad de La Laguna
Review of H. P. P. Lötter (2011) Poverty, Ethics and Justice.
15 November 2011

Abraham J. Peck, University of Maine at Augusta
Review of David Rieff (2011) Against Remembrance
26 August 2011

Jasmina Kijevcanin, Swinburne University of Technology
Review of Bronwyn Anne Leebaw (2011) Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change.
24 August 2011

Stephen Winter, University of Auckland
Review of Brian Grodsky (2010) The Costs of Justice: How New Leaders Respond to Previous Rights Abuses.
15 July 2011

Eve Darian-Smith, University of California
Review of Nicola Henry (2011) War and Rape: Law, Memory and Justice.
27 December 2010

 

Forthcoming Reviews

Review of Paul Christoph Bornkamm (2012) Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: Between Retribution and Reparation
(Review by Jordan Nowotny)

Review of Ana Lucia Araujo (ed.). Politics of Memory. Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space
(Review by Stephen Gapps)

Review of Francesca Lessa and Vincent Druliolle (Eds.) (2011) The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.
(Review by Adam Czarnota)

Review of Jessica Lincoln (2011) Transitional Justice, Peace and Accountability.
(Review by Gabriela Fried Amilivia)

Review of Susanne Karstedt, Ian Loader and Heather Strang (eds.) (2011) Emotions, Crime and Justice.
(Review by Christiane Grieb)

Review of Nenad Dimitrijevic (2011) Duty to Respond: Mass Crime, Denial, and Collective Responsibility.
(Review by Katja Hanke)

Review of Shelley Hornstein (2011) Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place
(Reviews by Akiko Takenaka and Vidhu Gandhi)

Review of Norman K. Denzin (2011) Custer on Canvas: Representing Indians, Memory and Violence in the New West
(Review by Liviu Damsa)

Review of Alfred Thomas (2010) Prague Palimpsest: Writing, Memory, and the City
(Review by Liviu Damsa)

Review of Aleida Assmann and Linda Shortt (eds.) (2011) Memory and Political Change
(Review by Ben Gook)

Review of Anna Wolff-Poweska & Piotr Forecki (hrsg.) (2012) Der Holocaust in der polnischen Erinnerungskultur
(Review by Abraham Peck)

Review of Efrat Ben-Ze’ev (2011) Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives
(Review by Martin Fisher)

Review of Daniel Rothenberg (ed.) (2012) Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report 
(Review by Debra Schultz)

Review of Anne Fuchs (2011) After the Dresden Bombing: Pathways of Memory, 1945 to the Present
(Review by Kshitija Wason)

Review of Berber Bevernage (2011) History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice
(Reviews by Ruben Bücking and Stephanie Wolfe)

Review of Jon Borneman (2011) Political Crime and the Memory of Loss
(Review by Lesley Dwyer)

Review of Ronald J. Berger (2012) The Holocaust, Religion and the Politics of Collective Memory
(Review by Pinar Kadioglu)

Review of Ruti G. Teitel (2011) Humanity’s Law
(Review by Rebecca Saunders)

Review of Angelica Nuzzo (2012) Memory, History, Justice in Hegel
(Review by Dan Anderson)

Review of Zheg Wang (2012) Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations
(Review by Walter Lee)

Review of Douglas Kammen and Katharine McGregor (eds.) (2012) The Contours of Mass Violence in Indonesia: 1965-68
(Review by Chris Wilson)

Review of Clara Han (2012) Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
(Review by Jadwiga Pieper-Mooney)

Review of Katherine Hite (2011) Politics and the Art of Commemoration.: Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain
(Review by Natan Sznaider)

Review of Matthias Abelin (2012) The Swedish 1997-2011 Sterilization Debate
(Review by Malin Arvidsson)

Review of Catherine Guisan (2011) A Political Theory of Identity in European Integration. Memory and Policies
(Review by Yves Laberge)

Review of Julia Volmer-Naumann (2011) Bürokratische Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Die Entschädigung für nationalsozialistisch Verfolgte nach 1945

Review of Zachée Betche (2012) L’invention de l’homme noir. Une critique de la modernité

Review of Dieter Bingen, Maria Jarosz und Peter Oliver Loew (Hrsg.) (2012) Legitimation und Protest. Gesellschaftliche Unruhe in Polen, Ostdeutschland und anderen Transformationsländern nach 1989

Review of Heinz A. Richter (2012) Griechenland 1940-1950. Die Zeit der Bürgerkriege

Review of Longina Jakubowska (2012) Patrons of History. Nobility, Capital and Political Transitions in Poland

Review of Kevin Blackburn and Karl Hack (2012) War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore

Review of Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon (2012) Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia

Review of Kim C. Priemel and Alexa Stiller (2012) Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography

Review of David Fraser (2011) Daviborshch’s Cart. Narrating the Holocaust in Australian War Crimes Trials

Review of  Kevin Blackburn and Karl Hack (2012) War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore (Review by Sudarat Musikawong)

Review of Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon (2012)  Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia