![]() ![]() Other potential issues included History’s tendency to subordinate the ‘unreliable’ quirks of the individual’s perception to the greater perceived reliability of the archive as well as the genre’s sometime failure to give due attention to what is absent, opaque, intangible: traumatic. These limitations included the dangers of the narrative seductions of progressive rationalism, non self-reflexive ‘objectivity’ in which the disciplinary norm of empirical analysis became ‘theory in denial’ as well as the dominance of the Rankeian orthodoxy that has focused on the nation-state as the primary container of historical analysis. At the same time, the research process for HRNT was also alert to history’s limitations, although these were not extensively commented on in the book owing to space restrictions. 1 The work was a historical study that analyzed archival documents, media representations and oral history interviews in an attempt to reach balanced judgements about post-Cold War developments in Holocaust memorialization. The book analyzed the significance of the politics and symbolism of the commemoration of the Holocaust and Nazi-era crimes in the late 1990s and 2000s at the European, international and transnational levels. It is based upon research completed for my monograph Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational: A Case Study of the Stockholm International Forum and the First Decade of the ITF (henceforth HRNT). ![]() This article will reflect on the impact of contemporary trauma theory as a key intellectual horizon line for research on the histories and memories of the Holocaust in twenty-first century Europe. This article will discuss how a revised trauma theory, along the lines suggested by scholars such as Joshua Pederson, continues to offer important possibilities for European studies of the histories and memories of the Holocaust in singular and comparative terms. It will offer a response to the increasing critique of Eurocentric trauma theory which developed during the period spent researching the Stockholm International Forum (SIF 2000) and the first decade of the Task Force for International Co-operation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF, now the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, IHRA). ![]() Reflecting on the research process for Holocaust Remembrance between the National and the Transnational (HRNT), which explores and analyzes the significance of the European and global politics of the commemoration of the Holocaust and Nazi-era crimes in the late 1990s and 2000s, this article will consider the influence of the intellectual context of trauma theory for this book. ![]()
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