Heritage and Memory Studies
About the Book Series
This ground-breaking series examines the dynamics of heritage and memory from a transnational, interdisciplinary and integrated approaches. Monographs or edited volumes critically interrogate the politics of heritage and dynamics of memory, as well as the theoretical implications of landscapes and mass violence, nationalism and ethnicity, heritage preservation and conservation, archaeology and (dark) tourism, diaspora and postcolonial memory, the power of aesthetics and the art of absence and forgetting, mourning and performative re-enactments in the present.
Foreign Cultural Policy in the Interbellum: The Italian Dante Alighieri Society and the British Council Contesting the Mediterranean
1st Edition
By Tamara van Kessel
December 01, 2025
This book considers the growing awareness in the wake of World War I that culture could play an effective political role in international relations. Tamara van Kessel shows how the British created the British Council in support of those cultural aims, which took on particular urgency in light of ...
Fragments of the Holocaust: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Site of Memory
1st Edition
By David Duindam
December 01, 2025
Why do we attach so much value to sites of Holocaust memory, if all we ever encounter are fragments of a past that can never be fully comprehended? David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, ...
Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity: Localized Politics of European Memories
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Sofia Laine, Päivi Salmesvuori, Ulla Savolainen, Riikka Taavetti
December 01, 2025
This collection focuses on difficult memories and diverse identities related to conflicts and localized politics of memories. The contemporary and history-oriented case studies discuss politicized memories and pasts, the frictions of justice and reconciliation, and the diversity and fragmentation ...
German Post-Socialist Memory Culture: Epistemic Nostalgia
1st Edition
By Amieke Bouma
December 01, 2025
After German unification, former officers of the GDR state security service united with GDR professors and cultural managers to establish the East German Committee of Associations (OKV). On the basis of encompassing oral history into this complex web of interest organizations and memory clubs, ...
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation
1st Edition
By Elke Weesjes
December 01, 2025
Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain: Childhood, Political Activism, and Identity Formation documents communists’ attempts, successful and otherwise, to overcome their isolation and to connect with the major social and political movements of the twentieth century. Communist parties ...
Guardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia
1st Edition
By Inge Melchior
December 01, 2025
Guardians of Living History: An Ethnography of Post-Soviet Memory Making in Estonia interrogates how people living in a society with an extremely complicated, violent past, only a short history of independence, and a desire to belong to Europe engage with the past, both within their families and as...
Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation
1st Edition
Edited
By Gemma Blok, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Claire Weeda
December 01, 2025
In his groundbreaking Imagined Communities, first published in 1983, Benedict Anderson argued that members of a community experience a deep, horizontal camaraderie. Despite being strangers, members feel connected in a web of imagined experiences., Yet while Anderson's insights have been hugely ...
Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain: Resistance through Remembrance
1st Edition
By Daniel Palacios González
December 01, 2025
This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments. The book describes how the production of monuments evolved and what forms this process and these monuments took; it examines how the monuments were ...
Martyrdom: Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ihab Saloul, Jan Willem van Henten
December 01, 2025
The phenomenon of martyrdom is more than 2000 years old but, as contemporary events show, still very much alive. Martyrdom: Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives examines the canonisation, contestation and afterlives of martyrdom and connects these with cross-cultural acts and practices of ...
Memory Activism and Digital Practices after Conflict: Unwanted Memories
1st Edition
By Orli Fridman
December 01, 2025
This book investigates the study of memory activism and memory of activism, emerging after conflict, as a political civic action. It examines the appearance and growth of memory activism in Serbia amid the legacies of unwanted memories of the wars of the 1990s, approaching the post-Yugoslav region ...
Modelscapes of Nationalism: Collective Memories and Future Visions
1st Edition
By Yael Padan
December 01, 2025
Modelscapes are clusters of miniature architectural models that represent entire environments. They're frequently found in museums as representations of heritage, architecture, and collective identity. This book offers a critical analysis of modelscapes, using case studies from Israel, to show how ...
Reading Memory Sites Through Signs: Hiding into Landscape
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Demaria, Patrizia Violi
December 01, 2025
What can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we read their meanings? Semiotics can provide us with a homogeneous, shareable and theoretically sound methodology to analyse space within a comparable and ...