Interpreting Contentious Memory

Countermemories and Social Conflicts over the Past

Buch | Hardcover

292 Seiten

2023
Bristol University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5292-1866-4 (ISBN)

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This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, war, nationalism, colonialism and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics.

This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of racism, genocide, trauma, war, nationalism, colonial occupation, and more, it highlights how our interpretations of contentious memories are indispensable to our understandings of contemporary conflicts and identities.

Featuring an international group of scholars, this book makes important contributions to social memory studies, but also shows how studying memory is vital to our understanding of enduring social problems that span the globe.

Thomas DeGloma is Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Janet Jacobs is Professor of Distinction in Women and Gender Studies and Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder.

1. Introduction: Interpreting Contentious Memories and Conflicts over the Past - Thomas DeGloma and Janet Jacobs

Part 1: Interpreting Memories in the Social Dynamics of Contention

2 On the Social Distribution of Soldiers’ Memories: Normalization, Trauma, and Morality - Edna Lomsky-Feder

3. Feminist Approaches to Studying Memory and Mass Atrocity - Nicole Fox

4. Mobilizing Memories: Remembrance as a Social Movement Tool in the Vieques Anti-Military Movement (1999–2004) - Roberto Vélez-Vélez

5. The Ballot of Donald and Hillary: Hateful Memories of Celebrity Leaders - Gary Alan Fine, Christopher Robertson, and Cal Abbo

Part 2: Racism, Exclusion, and Mnemonic Conflict

6. Building a Case for Citizenship: Countermemory Work among Deported Veterans - Sofya Aptekar

7. Commemorations as Transformative Events: Collective Memory, Temporality, and Social Change - Claire Whitlinger

8. Contentious Pasts, Contentious Futures: Race, Memory, and Politics in Montgomery’s Legacy Museum - Amy Sodaro

Part 3: Genocide, Memory, and the Historicizing of Trauma

9. Remembrance and Historicization: Transformation of Individual and Collective Memory Processes in the Federal Republic of Germany - Werner Bohleber

10. Enlisting Lived Memory: From Traumatic Silence to Authentic Witnessing - Carol A. Kidron

11. Changing Memories of the Shoah in Post-Communist Countries: New Memories and Conflicts - Selma Leydesdorff

12. How Difficult Pasts Complicate the Present: Comparative Analysis of the Genocides in Western Armenia and Rwanda - Jacob Caponi and Fatma Müge Göçek

13. Conclusion: Memory and the Social Dynamics of Conflict and Contention: Interpretive Lenses for New Cases and Controversies - Janet Jacobs and Thomas DeGloma

Erscheinungsdatum	28.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
Co-Autor	Edna Lomsky-Feder, Nicole Fox, Roberto Vélez-Vélez, Gary Fine, Christopher Robertson
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-5292-1866-7 / 1529218667
ISBN-13	978-1-5292-1866-4 / 9781529218664
Zustand	Neuware