History, University of Birmingham
Thesis title:
My PhD research seeks to map out the role of civil society and activist initiatives in promoting postcolonial remembering and an engagement with the colonial history in Germany, as it has been emerging over the last four decades. It seeks to go beyond the debates about narratives such as colonial amnesia and explore more closely, where in German society postcolonial discourses are taking place, who is having them, who is neglecting them, and how do they relate to one another. In doing so, a key aim of my research is to produce a critique of whose perspectives have thus far been recognised as authoritative sources of knowledge production and knowledge dissemination in the debate on postcolonial remembering in Germany.
Kreft, J. (2023). Book review: Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary: Making Melancholia. Memory Studies, 16(5), 1390–1393. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231184541b