Agency in Transnational Memory Politics

by Jenny W stenberg (Editor), Aline Sierp (Editor)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789206944
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	07/01/2020
Series:	Worlds of Memory , #4
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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 UniversityPress, 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).

Aline Sierp is Associate Professor in European History & Memory Studies at Maastricht University(NL). Her research interests cover contested histories, memory politics, questions of identity and European integration. Aline is the co-founder and past Co-president of the Memory Studies Association and the Council of European Studies’ Research Network on Transnational Memory and Identity in Europe.

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

Editorial Reviews

“As a whole, the book is a very stimulating contribution to our further explorations of how to conceptualize transnational memory… As the work of developing the third phase of memory studies continues, this book will provide fertile frameworks and materials to further theorize the relations between the transnational, memory, and politics.” • Memory Studies

“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

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