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Part 1: Raising Questions of Evidence1. Global Reenactment, Local Practices
Vanessa Agnew, Sabine Stach, and Juliane Tomann
2.
Reenacting 9/11 on Screen
James Chandler
3. Crime Scene: Reconstruction in the works of Forensic Architecture and Robert Kümirowski
Dorota Sosnowska
4. Indigenous, I presume? Unexpected outcomes of repatriation and reenactments of photographic archives in the Upper Amazon
Christian Vium
Part 2: Reaffirming Understandings of the Past
5. In Honor of the Forefathers - Archaeological Reenactment between History Appropriation and Ideological Mission. The Case of Ulfhednar
Ralf Hoppadietz and Karin Reichenbach
6. Retracing the Revolution: Partisan Reenactments in Socialist Yugoslavia
Nikola Bakovi¿
7. Reenacting the Revolution: The Sacred Site of Yan'an in Contemporary China
Marc Andre Matten
8. Reenacting Japan's Past That Never Was: The Ninja in Tourism and Larp
Björn-Ole Kamm
Part 3: Challenging Narratives about the Past
9. "Are We Heroes Too?" Reenacting the 1949 Offensive against the Dutch Occupation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia"
Lise Zurné
10. Expedition and Reenactment: Recovering the Ottoman Past through Creating the Evliya Çelebi Way
Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean
11. You can't just put men in the field and be accurate.' Women in American Revolutionary War Reenactment
Juliane Tomann
Part 4: Restaging Lives
12. Exhibition as Reenactment: Kazimir Malevich at the Tretiakov Gallery, 1929
Marie Gasper-Hulvat
13. The Body as Time Machine: Reenactment in Lola Arias's Documentary Performance
Brenda Werth
14. "On Motives for Reenactment: The Example of the Kindertransport"
Bill Niven
Part 5: Negotiating Justice
15. Reenacting the Cambodian Genocide: Performances of Memory in Ella Pugliese's Documentary Movie
We Want [u] to Know (2009)
Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier
16. Performing Violence: Trauma and Reenactment in Documentary Film
Charley Boerman and Boris Noordenbos
About the author
Vanessa Agnew is Professor of Anglophone Studies at Universität Duisburg-Essen. She directs the Critical Thinking Program of Academy in Exile at Freie Universität Berlin and is Honorary Professor in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts at The Australian National University.
Sabine Stach is a research fellow at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in Leipzig. Her research focus is on Czech and Polish contemporary history, public history, and tourism. From 2015 to 2020 she worked at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw.
Juliane Tomann is Assistant Professor for Public History at Regensburg University. Her teaching and research interests focus on practices of doing history in popular culture in Central-Eastern Europe and the USA. Previously she was head of the research unit "History in the public sphere" at Imre Kertész Kolleg in Jena.
Summary
Reenactment Case Studies: Global Perspectives on Experiential History examines reenactment's challenge to traditional modes of understanding the past, asking how experience-based historical knowledge-making relates to memory-making and politics.
