Bøger i Memory Studies: Global Constellations serien

This book analyses top-down and bottom-up strategies of framing the nation and collective identities through commemorative practices relating to events from World War Two and the 1990s `Homeland War¿ in Croatia.

This book explores the ways in which the anti-colonial struggles against the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s have been publicly remembered, shedding new light on the complex entanglements between colonial pasts and political memories of anti-colonialism in shaping new nations arising out of liberation struggles.

This book examines the ways in which ghosts haunt and shape cultural identities and memory, considering the manner in which the fluctuations of such identities sometimes imply the rethinking or rewriting of the past.

Bringing together the work of social scientists and historians, this book explores the politics of memory in Ukraine and Poland, presenting studies of the creation of memory in education, mass media and on a local level, and considering the implications of changing national historical cultures for relations between the states.

This book examines the paradox of collective identity in eastern Germany, showing that questions raised about the identity of citizens of the former GDR in the wake of German reunification remain even today as a result of the contradictory ways in which easterners have remembered their past.

This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Using lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, it questions how memory and recovery is being constituted through larger discourses of political claims of moving forward, healing, and identity.

An enquiry into the social science of remembrance and forgiveness in global episodes of genocide and mass violence during the post-Holocaust era, this volume explores the ways in which these have changed over time and how remembrance and forgiveness have been used in more recent cases of genocide and mass violence.

This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Drawing on different interpretations of what constitutes `crisis¿, this collection uses lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, to question how memory and recovery is being constituted through larger discourses of political claims of moving forward, healing, and identity.