Memory Studies: Global Constellations
About the Book Series
Memory Studies as an academic field of cultural inquiry emerges at a time when global public debates, buttressed by the fragmentation of nation states and their traditional narratives, have greatly accelerated. Societies are today pregnant with newly unmediated memories, once sequestered in broad collective representations and their ideological stances. But, the ‘past in the present’ has returned with a vengeance in the early 21st Century, and with it an expansion of categories of cultural experience and meaning. This new series explores the social and cultural stakes around forgetting, useful forgetting and remembering, locally, regionally, nationally and globally. It welcomes studies of migrant memory from failed states; micro-histories battling against collective memories; the mnemonic past of emotions; the mnemonic spatiality of sites of memory; and the reconstructive ethics of memory in the face of galloping informationalization, as this renders the ‘mnemonic’ more and more public and publically accessible.
The Politics of Memory in Poland and Ukraine: From Reconciliation to De-Conciliation
1st Edition
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By Tomasz Stryjek, Joanna Konieczna-Sałamatin
May 31, 2023
Bringing together the work of sociologists, historians, and political scientists, this book explores the increasing importance of the politics of memory in central and eastern European states since the end of communism, with a particular focus on relations between Ukraine and Poland. Through ...
How Memory Divides: The Search for Identity in Eastern Germany
1st Edition
By Jeremy Brooke Straughn
January 09, 2023
This book examines the paradox of collective identity in eastern Germany in the wake of German reunification. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of the former German Democratic Republic were confronted with a dilemma: Were they already Germans without qualification, like their ...
Remembering Violence: How Nations Grapple with their Difficult Pasts
1st Edition
By Robin Maria DeLugan
May 30, 2022
This volume examines the ways in which the violent legacies of the twentieth century continue to affect the concept of the nation. Through a study of three societies’ commemoration of notorious episodes of 1930s state violence, the author considers the manner in which attention to the state ...
Remembrance and Forgiveness: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence
1st Edition
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By Ajlina Karamehić-Muratović, Laura Kromják
April 29, 2022
An enquiry into the social science of remembrance and forgiveness in global episodes of genocide and mass violence during the post-Holocaust era, this volume explores the ways in which remembrance and forgiveness have changed over time and how they have been used in more recent cases of genocide ...
Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944-1964: Post-communist Remembering
1st Edition
By Monica Ciobanu
April 29, 2022
This book examines how the process of remembering Stalinist repression in Romania has shifted from individual, family, and group representations of lived and witnessed experiences characteristic of the 1990s to more recent and state-sponsored expressions of historical remembrance through their ...
Heritage, Memory, and Punishment: Remembering Colonial Prisons in East Asia
1st Edition
By Shu-Mei Huang, Hyun-Kyung Lee
April 01, 2021
Based on a transnational study of decommissioned, postcolonial prisons in Taiwan (Taipei and Chiayi), South Korea (Seoul), and China (Lushun), this book offers a critical reading of prisons as a particular colonial product, the current restoration of which as national heritage is closely related to...
Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time
1st Edition
By Siobhan Kattago
December 05, 2019
Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time examines different encounters with the past from within the present – whether as commemoration, nostalgia, silence, ghostly haunting or combinations thereof. Taking its cue from Hannah Arendt’s definition of the present as a time ...
Postnational Memory, Peace and War: Making Pasts Beyond Borders
1st Edition
By Nigel Young
December 05, 2019
This book examines the phenomenon of modern memory as a reaction to total war, an aspiration to truth-seeking provoked by the independent forces of modern war and collective violence which is transnational, or postnational, in character. Using examples from prose and poetry, film and theatre, ...
War Memory and Commemoration
1st Edition
By Brad West
September 05, 2019
In a period characterised by an unprecedented cultural engagement with the past, individuals, groups and nations are debating and experimenting with commemoration in order to find culturally relevant ways of remembering warfare, genocide and terrorism. This book examines such remembrances and the ...
Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again
1st Edition
By Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider
June 10, 2019
To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization ...
Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory: Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature
1st Edition
By Stijn Vervaet
April 15, 2019
Until now, there has been little scholarly attention given to the ways in which Eastern European Holocaust fiction can contribute to current debates about transnational and transgenerational memory. Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literary narratives about the Holocaust offer a particularly interesting ...
Memory and Recovery in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
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By Fiona Larkan, Fiona Murphy
March 21, 2019
This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Drawing on different interpretations of what constitutes ‘crisis’, this collection uses lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, to question how memory and recovery is being ...