Agency in Transnational Memory Politics / / ed. by ‹a›Jenny Wüstenberg‹/a›, Aline Sierp.

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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Worlds of Memory ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (362 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Part I FOUNDATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION Agency and Practice in the Making of Transnational Memory Spaces
  • Chapter 1 A FIELD-THEORETICAL APPROACH TO MEMORY POLITICS
  • Part II Bottom-Up Agency
  • Chapter 2 Transnational Memories and the Practices of Global Justice in the Ayotzinapa Case
  • Chapter 3 Online Transnational Memory Activism and Commemoration: The Case of the White Armband Day
  • 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
  • Chapter 5 THE CREATION AND UTILIZATION OF OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES FOR TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM ON WORLD WAR II SEXUAL SLAVERY IN ASIA
  • Chapter 6 THE POLITICAL AGENCY OF VICTIMS THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL PROCESSES OF FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND MEMORY CONSTRUCTION IN LATIN AMERICA
  • Chapter 7 TRANSNATIONAL PLACE-MAKING AFTER POLITICAL VIOLENCE Agencies and Practices of Site Memorialization in the Latin American Southern Cone
  • Part III TOP-DOWN AGENCY
  • Chapter 8 MY GRIEF, OUR GRIEVANCE Universal Human Rights and Memory Standardization in Liberia’s Truth Commission
  • Chapter 9 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN PUBLIC Communicating Transnational Memories of Mass Violence
  • Chapter 10 TRANSNATIONAL MEMORY MOVEMENTS IN THE 9/11 MUSEUM
  • Part IV HORIZONTAL AGENCY
  • Chapter 11 LINKS TO THE PAST, BRIDGES FOR THE PRESENT? Recognition among Memory Organizations in a European Network
  • Chapter 12 “Life Was a Precarious Dance” Graphic Narration and the Construction of a Transcultural Memory Space in the PositiveNegatives Project
  • Chapter 13 A TRANSNATIONAL NATION Roma National Identity in the Making
  • Chapter 14 BORDER-CROSSING CULTURAL INITIATIVES OF MEMORY AND RECONCILIATION ACROSS THE COLOMBIA-PANAMA BORDER
  • Part V OUTLOOK
  • CONCLUSIONS Agency in Transnational Memory Politics— Guidelines for Inquiry
  • INDEX