The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma

1. Front Matter

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2. The Problem with “Being There”

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   Pages 1-15

3. “I Was There!”: The Conjunction of Study Abroad and Dark Tourism

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4. “And Now You Are Going to See Something Shocking”: Atrocity Images in Holocaust Education

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5. “We Didn’t Know There Was a Women’s Camp”: The Haunting Qualities of Ravensbrück

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6. “My Therapist Told Me not to Visit Auschwitz”: The Problem with crisis pedagogy

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   Pages 63-74

7. Conclusions: Looking Back at a Holocaust study abroad program

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   Pages 75-81

8. Back Matter

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This book chronicles a professor’s experience with a group of US undergraduate students at Holocaust memorials, museums, and sites of remembrance as part of a yearly Holocaust study abroad program to Germany and Poland. Narrated through a series of personal encounters, The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma synthesizes a concrete experiential teaching account - on issues ranging from trauma tourism to the ethics of spectatorship - with contemporary debates on Holocaust education. In doing so, this book seeks to offer a critical assessment on the possibilities and limitations of teaching at sites that were central to the planning and execution of the Holocaust. 

• ethics
• history
• Holocaust
• violence
• World War II

• Department of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

  Natalie Bormann

Natalie Bormann is Teaching Professor in Political Science at Northeastern University, USA.

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