Towards a Collaborative Memory: German Memory Work in a Transnational Context

by Sara Jones

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800735965
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	08/12/2022
Series:	Worlds of Memory , #9
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

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).

Table of Contents

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

Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

“Jones draws on an impressive number of unique primary sources, and her review of the literature on memory scholarship is thorough. Readers in several disciplines and at different levels of expertise will find much to like here. No recent work is comparable…Highly Recommended.” • Choice

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