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.
The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons
1st Edition
Edited
By Erica van Boven, Marieke Winkler
December 01, 2025
Departing from the present need for cultural models within the public debate, this volume offers a new contribution to the study of cultural icons. From the traditional religious icon to the modern mass media icon, from the recognizable visual icon to the complex entanglement of image and ...
The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria Shmidt
December 01, 2025
By focusing on the politics of disability as a pillar of Czechoslovak identity, The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslovakia: Segregating in the Name of the Nation reflects upon the vicissitudes of nation building over the twentieth century that led to extreme forms of ...
Vietnam, A War, Not a Country
1st Edition
By Ron Eyerman, Todd Madigan, Magnus Ring
December 01, 2025
Vietnam: A War, Not a Country explores the conflicting ways in which the American-Vietnamese War has been collectively remembered and represented from the perspective of the war’s three primary belligerents: the Vietnamese communists, the South Vietnamese, and the Americans. The book examines how ...