Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales (Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung Book 19)

Also available as paperback! How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach, it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality, migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the nation-state.

Im Kontext der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung widmet sich diese interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Reihe dem Verhältnis von Medien und kultureller Erinnerung. Die hier vorgestellten Studien behandeln die ganze Bandbreite der durch Medien konstruierten, tradierten und verbreiteten Erinnerung. Schrift und Bild, das Kino und die ‘neuen’ digitalen Medien, Intermedialität, Transmedialität und Remediation sowie die sozialen, zunehmend transnationalen und transkulturellen, Kontexte der mediatisierten Erinnerung gehören zu den Forschungsinteressen der Reihe. Ziel ist es, eine internationale Plattform für die interdisziplinäre Medien- und Gedächtnisforschung zu schaffen. Eingereichte Manuskripte werden im peer review Verfahren durch externe Experten begutachtet.

Den Herausgebern, Astrid Erll (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) und Ansgar Nünning (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) ist ein internationaler Beirat aus renommierten Wissenschaftlern assoziiert:

• Aleida Assmann (Universität Konstanz)
• Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)
• Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna)
• Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Udo Hebel (Universität Regensburg)
• Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow)
• Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamton University)
• Alison Landsberg (George Mason University)
• Claus Leggewie (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)
• Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia)
• Susannah Radstone (University of South Australia)
• Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
• Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois)
• Werner Sollors (Harvard University)
• Frederic Tygstrup (University of Copenhagen)
• Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)

Acknowledgements Contents Introduction Part I: Circulation From ‘District Six’ to District 9 and Back: The Plurimedial Production of Travelling Schemata Moving Testimony: Human Rights, Palestinian Memory, and the Transnational Public Sphere Archive, Memory, and Loss: Constructing Images in the Armenian Diaspora Relational Maps in the Cook Islands Transnational Communities Part II: Articulation Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany Slavery and Transnational Memory: The Making of New Publics Between the Local, National, and Transnational: Photographic Recording and Memorializing Desire Memory, Identity, and Roma Transnational Nationalism Imaging Humanity: Socialist Film and Transnational Memories of the War in Vietnam Part III: Scales World Heritage and the Nation-State: A View fromPalestine Haunting Memory: The Extension of Kinship Beyond the Nation Postwar Europe and the Colonial Past in Photographs Transnationalism in Reverse: From Yugoslav to Post-Yugoslav Memorial Sites Ongoing: Changing Memory and the European Project Envoi: Centro di permanenza temporanea Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Index of Names How Do Memories Circulate Transnationally And To What Effect? How Can We Understand The Enduring Role Of National Memories And Their Simultaneous Reconfiguration Under Globalization? This Book Charts The Rich Production Of Memory Across And Beyond National Borders, Thus Giving New Insight Into The Role Of Memory In The Contemporary World. Edited By Chiara De Cesari And Ann Rigney. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.