Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

Jenny Wustenberg, Aline Sierp (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

362 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-133-3 (ISBN)

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The dynamics of transnational memory play a central role in modern politics, from postsocialist efforts at transitional justice to the global legacies of colonialism. Yet, the relatively young subfield of transnational memory studies remains underdeveloped and fractured across numerous disciplines, even as nascent, boundary-crossing theories on topics such as multi-vocal, traveling, or entangled remembrance suggest new ways of negotiating difficult political questions. This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.

Jenny Wüstenberg is Professor of History & Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is the founder and past Co-President of the Memory Studies Association (2016-2023), as well as Chair of the COST Action on “Slow Memory: Transformative Practices in Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change” (2021-2025). She is the author of Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and the co-editor, most recently, of Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (with Aline Sierp, Berghahn 2020) and the Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (with Yifat Gutman, 2023).

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PART I: FOUNDATIONS

Introduction: Agency and Practice in the Making of Transnational Memory Spaces

Jenny Wüstenberg

Chapter 1. A Field-Theoretical Approach to Collective Memory

Zoltan Dujisin

PART II: BOTTOM-UP AGENCY

Chapter 2. Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case

Silvana Mandolessi

Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (“Digital Memories,” Grant agreement n° 677955).

Chapter 3. Online Transnational Memory Activism and Commemoration: The Case of the White Armband Day

Orli Fridman & Katarina Ristić

Chapter 4. Memory Activism across Borders: The Transformative Influence of the Argentinean-Franco Court Case and Activist Protest Movements on Spain’s Recovery of Historical Memory

Andrea Hepworth

Chapter 5. The Creation and Utilization of Opportunity Structures for Transnational Activism on WWII Sexual Slavery in Asia

Mary McCarthy

Chapter 6. The Political Agency of Victims through Transnational Process of Forensic Anthropology and Memory Construction in Latin America

Devin Finn

Chapter 7. Transnational Place-Making After Political Violence: Agencies and Practices of Site Memorialization in the Latin American Southern Cone

Gruia Bădescu

PART III: TOP-DOWN AGENCY

Chapter 8. My Pain, Our Grievance: Universal Human Rights and Memory Standardization in Liberia's Truth Commission

Noga Glucksam

Chapter 9. Transitional Justice in Public: Communicating Transnational Memories of Mass Violence

Courtney E Cole

Chapter 10. Transnational Memory Movements in the 9/11 Museum

Amy Sodaro

PART IV: HORIZONTAL AGENCY

Chapter 11. Links to the Past, Bridges for the Present? Recognition among Memory Organizations in a European Network

Till Hilmar

Chapter 12. "Life Was a Precarious Dance": Graphic Narration and the Construction of a Transcultural Memory Space in the PositiveNegatives Project

Dragos Manea and Mihaela Precup

Chapter 13. A Transnational Nation: Roma National Identity in the Making

Balázs Majtényi and György Majtenyi

Chapter 14. Border-Crossing Cultural Initiatives of Memory and Reconciliation across the Colombian-Panama Border

Ricardo A. Velasco Trujillo

PART V: OUTLOOK

Conclusions: Agency in Transnational Memory Politics—Guidelines for Inquiry

Aline Sierp

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Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Worlds of Memory
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-133-X / 180539133X
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-133-3 / 9781805391333
Zustand	Neuware