Eva Pfanzelter – författare

Migration is often viewed as a one-way process, from the country of origin to the place of arrival, but recent academic research shows that this presumption is fundamentally flawed. Migration has always been characterized by return movements, as a glance into history reveals – from transatlantic returns in the 19th century to the back-and-forth of migrant workers and refugees in the 20th century, and numerous other forced and voluntary migrations. This volume invites to reconceptualize studies in migration history by shifting away from the focus on “going away” to a more complex one revolving around a plurality of issues of leaving, returning, moving on and traveling again, belonging and fluid identities in “third spaces”.Structured in three parts, the contributions in this volume shed light on the close connection between power dynamics and return migration as well as how migration processes shape individual planning abilities, social relationships, and complex spatial dynamics.The methodological part of the volume further encourages readers to reflect on growing data collections and possibilities for digital research on return migration.

The World Wide Web (WWW) and digitisation have become important sites and tools for the history of the Holocaust and its commemoration. Today, some memory institutions use the Internet at a high professional level as a venue for self-presentation and as a forum for the discussion of Holocaust-related topics for potentially international, transcultural and interdisciplinary user groups. At the same time, it is not always the established institutions that utilise the technical possibilities and potential of the Internet to the maximum. Creative and sometimes controversial new forms of storytelling of the Holocaust or more traditional ways of remembering the genocide presented in a new way with digital media often come from people or groups who are not in the realm of influence of the large memorial sites, museums and archives. Such "private" stagings have experienced a particular upswing since the boom of social media. This democratisation of Holocaust memory and history is crucial though it is as yet undecided how much it will ultimately reinforce old structures and cultural, regional or other inequalities or reinvent them. The “Digital space” as an arbitrary and limitless archive for the mediation of the Holocaust spanning from Russia to Brazil is at the centre of the essays collected in this volume. This space is also considered as a forum for negotiation, a meeting place and a battleground for generations and stories and as such offers the opportunity to reconsider the transgenerational transmission of trauma, family histories and communication. Here it becomes evident: there are new societal intentions and decision-making structures that exceed the capabilities of traditional mass media and thrive on the participation of a broad public.

das Buch- und Schreibprojekt „historyblogosphere. Bloggen in den Geschichtswissenschaften“ dokumentiert und reflektiert die historische Blogosphäre: Wozu betreibt man als Historiker/in ein Blog? Was sind überhaupt geschichtswissenschaftliche Blogs? Gibt es geschlechtsspezifische Nutzungsformen? Wie schreibt man für ein Blog und wieviel Technikwissen braucht es dafür? Welche Möglichkeiten der Vernetzung gibt es und wozu braucht es diese? Haben Blogs einen wissenschaftlichen Nutzen und welche „Grenzen im Kopf“ innerhalb der wissenschaftlichen Community gilt es aufzubrechen? Können Blogs die transnationale bzw. interdisziplinäre Betrachtung historischer Prozesse fördern und aktuelle Fragen in den öffentlichen Diskurs tragen? Kurz: Wo ist sie, die Geschichte-Blogosphäre und wo ist die Community? Als ein Novum in der deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftslandschaft entsteht dieses Buch in einem offenen Arbeitsprozess, indem es Tools und Prozesse des Netzes einsetzt und eine kooperative Arbeitsweise in den Entstehungsprozess einbezieht. Insbesondere fand ein Open Peer Review im Netz statt. Der Open Peer Review Prozess lief von 10. Oktober bis 10. Dezember 2012 und ist dokumentiert unter http://historyblogosphere.degruyter.com/