Introduction: A New Road Is Opened

Edmondson, Ray; Jordan, Lothar; Prodan, Anca Claudia

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“…10 It knew it needed to get more actively involved to compete with the other EA powers in the realm of international public opinion and assert more control over the wartime narrative, in particular. Ray Edmondson (2020b), the chair of MoWCAP (MoW Committee for Asia and the Pacific), makes it clear that “MoW is no stranger to lobbying” (p. 75).…”

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“…How is remembering those who saved lives and, by extension, a people that saved lives, in the name of memory, justice, and reconciliation, to be understood in the context of the intervention of statecraft? How can we make sense of claims that the commemoration of the past is a performative morality, 6 especially through a particular UNESCO program that is aimed at preserving documents as both artifacts and information carriers (Edmondson, 2020a)?…”

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Memory, borders, and justice: The emerging morality competition over the wartime documentary heritage of Jewish refugees in East Asia

Huang

2024

Memory Studies

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This article brings attention to the moral aspect of remembering by examining the emerging interest in wartime documentary heritage in East Asia, particularly epitomized in recent competitions and disputes over nomination processes of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Memory of the World. It examines China and Japan’s attempts at pursuing MoW registers and leading the commemoration of Jewish passages in wartime East Asia, through which they wish to gain an international reputation for morality derived from the Holocaust. This study demonstrates that memory politics in East Asia, instead of only reinforcing the image of innocent victims of wars, has moved toward featuring the righteous figures who preserved humanity against violence. It also sheds light on the limits of MoW—an institutional practice that is not designed to accommodate entangled memory but to confine and govern memories.

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Memory, borders, and justice: The emerging morality competition over the wartime documentary heritage of Jewish refugees in East Asia

Huang

2024

Memory Studies

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“…Meanwhile, UNESCO suspended the nomination cycle for the International Register and undertook a comprehensive review and revision of the General Guidelines , including the International Advisory Committee Statutes and the nomination and selection processes (Edmondson, 2020; Suh, 2020). As a result, all international nominations now need to go through the UNESCO National Commission of each member state, a significant change that moves the MOW away from its original design as an expert-led programme (Edmondson, 2020). This means MOW applications will be screened at the national level before submission to the International Advisory Committee.…”

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The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and claims for recognition of atrocities: The nominations of Documents of Nanjing Massacre and Voices of the ‘Comfort Women’

2023

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This article explores the use of the UNESCO Memory of the World programme in claims for recognition of atrocities, focusing on two recent nominations: Documents of Nanjing Massacre and Voices of the ‘Comfort Women’. We argue that amid domestic and international contestation of memories and historical accounts, cultural programmes, such as the Memory of the World, have become increasingly politicised and used to push for international recognition of past atrocities. The article reflects on the character of the Memory of the World programme and the core reasons for nominations to such programmes. It also considers the possible consequences of registration as it transposes the heritage of memory from the local to the global stage (and back) and in the process subjects both memory and heritage to various forms of authorised transformation and reification. We bring attention to how official recognition by the Memory of the World affects ongoing collective memory formation, and express concerns about the appropriation of individual and local memories, as they are granted universal value.

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Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution

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Helferich

2023

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Introduction: A New Road Is Opened

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Memory, borders, and justice: The emerging morality competition over the wartime documentary heritage of Jewish refugees in East Asia

Memory, borders, and justice: The emerging morality competition over the wartime documentary heritage of Jewish refugees in East Asia

The UNESCO Memory of the World Programme and claims for recognition of atrocities: The nominations of Documents of Nanjing Massacre and Voices of the ‘Comfort Women’

Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution

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