Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies

<p>The Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies offers students and researchers original contributions that comprise the debates, intersections and future courses of the field. It is divided in six themed sections: </p><p></p><p>1)Theories and Perspectives, </p><p></p><p>2) Cultural artefacts, Symbols and Social practices, </p><p></p><p>3) Public, Transnational, and Transitional Memories </p><p></p><p>4) Technologies of Memory, </p><p></p><p>5) Terror, Violence and Disasters, </p><p></p><p>6) and Body and Ecosystems. </p><p></p><p>A strong emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary breadth of Memory Studies with contributions from leading international scholars in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, biology, film studies, media studies, archive studies, literature and history. The Handbook addresses the core concerns and foundations of the field while indicating new directions in Memory Studies.</p> <p><strong>Part I. Theories and Perspectives </strong>1. Rethinking the Concept of Collective Memory, <i>Barry Schwartz </i>2. Reconceptualizing Memory as Event: from "difficult pasts" to "restless events", <i>Robin Wagner-Pacifici </i>3. Pierre Nora's Les Lieux de memoire Thirty Years After, <i>Patrick Hutton </i>4. Sites of Memory Studies (Lieux des études de mémoire), <i>Jeffrey Olick </i>5. Against Memory, <i>Jeffrey Goldfarb </i>6. Cultural Memory Studies: Mediation, narrative, and the aesthetic, <i>Ann Rigney </i><strong>Part II. Cultural Artefacts, Symbols and Social Practices </strong>7. Social Movements and Memory, <i>Ron Eyerman </i>8. Banal Commemoration, <i>Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi </i>9. Organizational Memories – A phenomenological analysis, <i>Thomas S. Eberle </i>10. Memory, Time, and Responsibility, <i>Carmen Leccardi </i>11. Memory of the Future, <i>Paolo Jedlowski </i>12. "Housing Spirits: The Grave as an Exemplary Site of Memory," <i>Hans Ruin </i><strong>Part III: Public, Transnational, and Transitional Memories </strong>13. Globalization and/of Memory: On the complexification and contestation of memory cultures and practices, <i>David Inglis </i>14 . The Afterlife and Renaissance of the Plastic People of the (21st Century) Universe: Continuity and memory in bohemia, <i>Trever Hagen </i>15. De-Centering the Media, Normalizing Scandal, and Deflating Collective Memory, <i>Mark Jacobs </i>16. Antigone in Leon: The drama of trauma politics, <i>Natan Sznaider and Alejandro Baer </i>17. Urban Spaces, City Cultures, and Collective Memories, <i>Kevin Loughran, Gary Alan Fine, and Marcus Anthony Hunter </i>18. Digital Trauma Archives: The "Yellow Star Houses" Project, <i>Gabriella Ivacs </i><strong>Part IV: Technologies of Memory </strong>19. Cultural Heritage: Tangible and Intangible Markers of Collective Memory, <i>Diane Barthel-</i></p>