Towards a Collaborative Memory

German Memory Work in a Transnational Context

Sara Jones (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

276 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-595-8 (ISBN)

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This volume creates a sustained study that positions together transnational memory and relational sociology to consider the memory of the GDR. This book advances the field of transnational memory studies and develops new theoretical approaches that re-evaluate our understanding of actor-driven European memory.

Focusing on the memory of the German Democratic Republic, Towards a Collaborative Memory explores the cross-border collaborations of three German institutions. Using an innovative theoretical and methodological framework, drawing on relational sociology, network analysis and narrative, the study highlights the epistemic coloniality that has underpinned global partnerships across European actors and institutions. Sara Jones reconceptualizes transnational memory towards an approach that is collaborative not only in its practices, but also in its ethics, and shows how these institutions position themselves within dominant relationship cultures reflected between East and West, and North and South.

Sara Jones is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely and led on numerous funded projects within memory studies, with a particular focus on post-socialist memory cultures (especially in Germany), first person testimony, transnational and relational memory. She is author of Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere (2011) and The Media of Testimony: Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic (2014).

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgements

Note on Translations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: German Memory Work in Transnational Context

Chapter 1. Towards a Collaborative Memory: A Framework and a Method

Chapter 2. Tracing the Shape of Transnational Collaboration

Chapter 3. Narratives of a Shared Past: Central and Eastern European, Western European and Post Soviet Memory Zones

Chapter 4. Narratives of their Present and Future: East Asian and MENA Memory Zones

Chapter 5. Connecting Memory: Transzonal Brokers

Chapter 6. The National in the Transnational: Intrazonal Brokers

Conclusion: A Collaborative Memory Not Yet Achieved

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Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2022
Reihe/Serie	Worlds of Memory
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-80073-595-2 / 1800735952
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-595-8 / 9781800735958
Zustand	Neuware