Mercedes Camino – författare

This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant contexts, elucidating the political, social, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of these meanings, and offering interventions in the contemporary debates of Holocaust memory that suggest ways forward for the future.

The book, Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939-44: History Through Last Letters, examines the final letters of five antifascist activists who faced execution during the Second World War, including three teenagers. From Julia Conesa and Guy Môquet, who were given mere hours to write before their executions by firing squad, to Masha Bruskina, Mordechai Anielewicz and Olga Bancic, whose messages were delivered clandestinely, these last letters reveal the human face of resistance against fascism.Camino traces how these letters travelled through a myriad of intermediaries, including relatives, neighbours, Red Cross workers and prison wardens. This study explores how these final testimonies were often manipulated, consciously or unconsciously, as they passed through different hands, transforming personal farewells into political symbols. Writing Antifascist Resistance treats these letters as items of material culture, memento mori and metonymies of resistance, merging affect with activism in the history of twentieth-century antifascism.This compelling volume will appeal to historians of the Second World War and resistance movements, students and scholars of memory studies and material culture, and anyone interested in how ordinary people maintained their humanity and defiance in the face of fascist terror.

Exploring the Explorers: Spaniards in Oceania 1519-1794 is the first study of cross-cultural engagements between the indigenous peoples of the Pacific and Spanish explorers during the early modern period. Bridging disciplines, the book sets out to analyse in detail eight main voyages and their aims and outcomes, looking at the different patterns of contact and the use of gift-giving and bartering as social cement.This fascinating and original study will broaden the investigation of world exploration and Pacific ethnography, as many of the sources from these voyages are scarcely known and have not been translated before. It will also expand an understanding of Spanish and world exploration, developing the history of the Spanish Pacific beyond the long-standing colony of the Philippines.The study will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Early Modern European history as well as anthropologists, ethnographers and those interested in stories of exploration and discovery throughout history.

The book, Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939-44: History Through Last Letters, examines the final letters of five antifascist activists who faced execution during the Second World War, including three teenagers. From Julia Conesa and Guy Moquet, who were given mere hours to write before their executions by firing squad, to Masha Bruskina, Mordechai Anielewicz and Olga Bancic, whose messages were delivered clandestinely, these last letters reveal the human face of resistance against fascism.Camino traces how these letters travelled through a myriad of intermediaries, including relatives, neighbours, Red Cross workers and prison wardens. This study explores how these final testimonies were often manipulated, consciously or unconsciously, as they passed through different hands, transforming personal farewells into political symbols. Writing Antifascist Resistance treats these letters as items of material culture, memento mori and metonymies of resistance, merging affect with activism in the history of twentieth-century antifascism.This compelling volume will appeal to historians of the Second World War and resistance movements, students and scholars of memory studies and material culture, and anyone interested in how ordinary people maintained their humanity and defiance in the face of fascist terror.

The book, Writing Antifascist Resistance, 1939-44: History Through Last Letters, examines the final letters of five antifascist activists who faced execution during the Second World War, including three teenagers. From Julia Conesa and Guy Moquet, who were given mere hours to write before their executions by firing squad, to Masha Bruskina, Mordechai Anielewicz and Olga Bancic, whose messages were delivered clandestinely, these last letters reveal the human face of resistance against fascism.Camino traces how these letters travelled through a myriad of intermediaries, including relatives, neighbours, Red Cross workers and prison wardens. This study explores how these final testimonies were often manipulated, consciously or unconsciously, as they passed through different hands, transforming personal farewells into political symbols. Writing Antifascist Resistance treats these letters as items of material culture, memento mori and metonymies of resistance, merging affect with activism in the history of twentieth-century antifascism.This compelling volume will appeal to historians of the Second World War and resistance movements, students and scholars of memory studies and material culture, and anyone interested in how ordinary people maintained their humanity and defiance in the face of fascist terror.

This book investigates cinematic representations of the murder of European Jews and civilian opposition to Nazi occupation from the war up until the twenty-first century. The study exposes a chronology of the conflict’s memorialization whose geo-political alignments are demarcated by vectors of time and space—or ‘chronotopes’, using Mikhail Bakhtin’s term. Camino shows such chronotopes to be first defined by the main allies; the USA, USSR and UK; and then subsequently expanding from the geographical and political centres of the occupation; France, the USSR and Poland. Films from Western and Eastern Europe and the USA are treated as primary and secondary sources of the conflict. These sources contribute to a sentient or emotional history that privileges affect and construct what Michel Foucault labels biopolitics. These cinematic narratives, which are often based on memoirs of resistance fighters like Joseph Kessel or Holocaust survivors such as Primo Levi and Wanda Jakubowska, evoke the past in what Marianne Hirsch has described as ‘post-memory’.

This book investigates cinematic representations of the murder of European Jews and civilian opposition to Nazi occupation from the war up until the twenty-first century. The study exposes a chronology of the conflict’s memorialization whose geo-political alignments are demarcated by vectors of time and space—or ‘chronotopes’, using Mikhail Bakhtin’s term. Camino shows such chronotopes to be first defined by the main allies; the USA, USSR and UK; and then subsequently expanding from the geographical and political centres of the occupation; France, the USSR and Poland. Films from Western and Eastern Europe and the USA are treated as primary and secondary sources of the conflict. These sources contribute to a sentient or emotional history that privileges affect and construct what Michel Foucault labels biopolitics. These cinematic narratives, which are often based on memoirs of resistance fighters like Joseph Kessel or Holocaust survivors such as Primo Levi and Wanda Jakubowska, evoke the past in what Marianne Hirsch has described as ‘post-memory’.

This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant contexts, elucidating the political, social, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of these meanings, and offering interventions in the contemporary debates of Holocaust memory that suggest ways forward for the future.