Memory Conflicts Disasters and the Geopolitics of the Displaced

Transnational migration studies tend to conceptualize a clear spatial distinction between refugee camps and their surroundings as spaces of the displaced and spaces of the citizen respectively. However the geography of memory when seen through the prism of a space-state-citizenship relationship is much more complicated and difficult to disentangle. Only when examining cultural preservation of memories of displacement can we shed light on these complex connections. Memory Conflicts Disasters and the Geopolitics of the Displaced is a collection of innovative research that examines the preservation of socio-cultural memory in the wake of disaster and violence. Featuring coverage of a broad range of topics including conscription refugee culture and climate change this book is ideally designed for human rights workers activists historians policymakers government officials researchers academicians and students in the fields of sociology anthropology geography politics and urban planning.