Youth and memory in Europe : defining the past, shaping the future / edited by Félix Krawatzek and Nina Friess.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krawatzek, Félix, editor.

Friess, Nina, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; 34.

Media and Cultural Memory ; volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Youth--Europe--Psychology.

Youth.

Collective memory in mass media.

Nationalism and collective memory--Europe.

Nationalism and collective memory.

Physical Description:

xi, 390 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

"This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country's history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays attention to how both formal education and broader culture communicate ideas about the past, and how young people respond to these ideas. The studies collected in this volume show that such ideas about the past are central to the formation of the group identities of nations, social movements, or religious groups. Young people express received historical narratives in new, potentially subversive, ways. As young people tend to be more mobile and ready to interrogate their own roots than later generations, they selectively privilege certain aspects of their identities and their identification with their family or nation while neglecting others. This collection aims to correct the popular misperception that young people are indifferent towards history and prove instead that historical narratives are constitutive to their individual identities and their sense of belonging to something broader than themselves." -- Publisher's website

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783110738308

3110738309

OCLC:

1317679618