Overview

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.

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Author:   Jenny Wüstenberg ,  Aline Sierp
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   4
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9781789206944

ISBN 10:   1789206944
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   01 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 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 Index

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This is a timely, necessary and carefully edited volume. It develops a clear-cut conceptual framework for research on transnational memory, illustrated by many well-chosen and well-written case studies from across the globe. Joanna Wawrzyniak, University of Warsaw

This is a timely, necessary and carefully edited volume. It develops a clear-cut conceptual framework for research on transnational memory, illustrated by many well-chosen and well-written case studies from across the globe. * Joanna Wawrzyniak, University of Warsaw

Author Information

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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