The Past in the Politics of Divided and Unified Germany

Intense Paradoxes of Memory: Researching Moral Questions About Remembering the Socialist Past

“…Soon after unification, the state began its project of Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung (short: Aufarbeitung). This "reworking of the past" through historical research and public education was based on West Germany's experiences of attempting to deal with the Holocaust (Beattie 2005). It assumes that the socialist past is the difficult past of the "SED [Socialist Unity Party] dictatorship".…”

Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians and Sydney's Georges River parks and green spaces 

“…'Water flexibility', the ability to change and adopt different influences but to maintain integrity, is a quality which is explained as emerging from the Vietnamese relationship with environment and wet rice culture. 56 Though many Vietnamese Australians came from cities like Saigon they still identified with their home villages. People are expected to return there if possible for vital festivals like Tet.…”