Transnational memory : circulation, articulation, scales / edited by Chiara De Cesari and Ann Rigney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Cesari, Chiara, 1974- editor.

Rigney, Ann, editor.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; Volume 19.

Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 1613-8961 ; Volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Cross-cultural studies.

Collective memory.

Memorialization--Cross-cultural studies.

Memorialization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach, it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality, migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the nation-state.

Contents:

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction / De Cesari, Chiara / Rigney, Ann

Part I: Circulation

From 'District Six' to District 9 and Back: The Plurimedial Production of Travelling Schemata / Erll, Astrid

Moving Testimony: Human Rights, Palestinian Memory, and the Transnational Public Sphere / Kennedy, Rosanne

Archive, Memory, and Loss: Constructing Images in the Armenian Diaspora / Baronian, Marie-Aude

Relational Maps in the Cook Islands Transnational Communities / Küchler, Susanne

Part II: Articulation

Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany / Rothberg, Michael

Slavery and Transnational Memory: The Making of New Publics / Ebron, Paulla A.

Between the Local, National, and Transnational: Photographic Recording and Memorializing Desire / Edwards, Elizabeth

Memory, Identity, and Roma Transnational Nationalism / Kapralski, Slawomir

Imaging Humanity: Socialist Film and Transnational Memories of the War in Vietnam / Schwenkel, Christina

Part III: Scales

World Heritage and the Nation-State: A View fromPalestine / De Cesari, Chiara

Haunting Memory: The Extension of Kinship Beyond the Nation / Feuchtwang, Stephan

Postwar Europe and the Colonial Past in Photographs / Legêne, Susan / Eickhoff, Martijn

Transnationalism in Reverse: From Yugoslav to Post-Yugoslav Memorial Sites / Kirn, Gal

Ongoing: Changing Memory and the European Project / Rigney, Ann

Envoi: Centro di permanenza temporanea / Paci, Adrian

Notes on Contributors

List of Illustrations

Index of Names

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110486018

3110486016

9783110359107

3110359103

9783110386738

3110386739

OCLC:

1002242756