Local memories in a nationalizing and globalizing world /
"In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political elites in the hope to create homogeneous nation-states. In contrast, this book asserts that collective memories develop out of a never-ending, triangula...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Local, National, Transnational Memories : A Triangular Relationship / Marnix Beyen
- PART I. POLITICS OF URBAN MEMORY
- 2. Physical Space, Urban Space, Civic Space : Rotterdam's Inhabitants and their Appropriation of the City's Past / Willem Frijhoff
- 3. Politics of Street Names : Local, National, Transnational Budapest / Emilia Palonen
- 4. Transfer Zones : German and Global Suffering in Dresden / Mathias Berek
- 5. Manufacturing Local Identification behind the Iron Curtain in Sevastopol, Ukraine after World War II / Karl D. Qualls
- 6. Local memories in a Contested Borderland : Commemorations in Strasbourg between France, Germany and Europe / Thomas Williams
- PART II. PLACES AND PRACTICES OF SUBALTERN MEMORY
- 7. Displacements and Hidden Histories : Museums, Locality and the British Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Geoffrey Cubitt
- 8. Structures of Collective Memory : The Last Bannerman in Local Japan / Michael Wert
- 9. Remembering Padre Cicero : Local, Regional and National Memory in Northeastern Brazil / Gerald Greenfield
- 10. "Reconciliation across the graves?" : The German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn as a Place of Remembrance between Local and (Inter)national Areas of Conflict, 1945-2000 / Christine Gundermann
- 11. Local and counter-memories in Post-Socialist Romania / Duncan Light and Craig Young
- 12. Greetings from Borgerocco : an Antwerp Neighborhood as a National Icon of Globalization and Anti-Globalism / Marnix Beyen
- 13. Memories on the Move : the Italian Student Movement of 1977 between Local, National and Global Memories of Protest / Andrea Hajek