Colonial memories and post-colonial silences the Herero and Nama Genocide in German and Namibian journalism Christina Haritos

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haritos, Christina, 1995- author.

Series:

Critical studies in media and communication ; Bd. 33.

Critical studies in media and communication 2747-3937 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Press coverage--Germany.

Genocide.

Genocide--Press coverage--Namibia.

Journalism--Germany.

Journalism.

Journalism--Namibia.

Collective memory--Germany.

Collective memory.

Collective memory--Namibia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld transcript [2025]

Summary:

"Restitution, reparation, renaming - the colonial past is omnipresent in today's cultural, political and academic debates. Christina Haritos sheds light on the post-colonial power dynamics that shape these discussions by analyzing German and Namibian journalistic coverage of the Herero and Nama genocide, with a focus on the German-Namibian genocide negotiations between 2015 and 2021. She thus offers a much-needed entangled perspective on how journalism evokes colonial memories to maintain or challenge colonial power relations. The study shows how journalism navigates colonial gaps in the archive to render certain perspectives (in-)visible and to determine whose past can be used to make claims for a common future"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction : remembering (and forgetting) colonial genocide

Discursive context : the Herero and Nama genocide

Journalism and memory : first draft or final say?

Journalism and silence : the “other” side of memory

Methodology and research design

Formal analysis : the Herero and Nama genocide in German and Namibian journalism

Terms of genocide : re-presenting the colonial past in journalism

Whose past, whose present? representation through temporal (dis-)connection in journalism

Conclusion, discussion and outlook : memories of colonial genocide in journalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed January 5, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Haritos, Christina, 1995- Colonial memories and post-colonial silences

ISBN:

9783839415429

383941542X

OCLC:

1557735340

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