“Regions of memory” are a scale of social and cultural memory that reaches above the national, yet remains narrower than the global or universal. The chapters of this volume analyze transnational constellations of memory across and between several geographical areas, exploring historical, political and cultural interactions between societies. Such a perspective enables a more diverse field of possible comparisons in memory studies, studying a variety of global memory regions in parallel. Moreover, it reveals lesser-known vectors and mechanisms of memory travel, such as across Cold War battle lines, across the Indian Ocean, or between Southeast Asia and western Europe.
Chapters 1 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Author(s): Simon Lewis, Jeffrey Olick, Joanna Wawrzyniak, Malgorzata Pakier
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction: Regions of Memory in Theory
Thinking Regionally About Memory
Structure of the Volume
References
Part I: Historical Regions of Memory
The Cold War and Regions of Memory
The Politicization of Victimhood
Sharing a Divided Past
Nuclear Colonialism
Military History/Heritage Tourism
References
Human Rights and Regions of Memory: The Case of the International People’s Tribunal on Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia 1965
Introduction
Human Rights Regions of Memory
The 1965 Genocide
Failed Indonesian Efforts to Address this Case
The People’s Tribunal Aims and Format
Official Indonesian Responses to the Tribunal
The Netherlands and Regions of Memory
Conclusions
References
The Legacy of Empire in East-Central Europe: Fractured Nations and Divided Loyalties
A Region of Empires
From Empire to Nation State
Empire Upon Empire
Fault Lines and Fractures
“Europe” and Empire
References
Part II: Political Regions of Memory
Partisan History and the East European Region of Memory
Introduction
East European Region of Memory
Partisan Histories and the Partisan Subject
Double Genocide, Double Occupation, and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust
National Memory Politics
The European Union
Partisan Critiques of Partisan Histories
Conclusion
References
China, the Maritime Silk Road, and the Memory of Colonialism in the Asia Region
The Silk Road, the Maritime Silk Road, and the One Belt, One Road Project
Creating a Past for Shanghai Before the Opium War: The Shanghai History Museum
The Maritime Silk Road and the Silk Road in the Hong Kong’s Museums
Chinese Civilization in the History of Southern Asia: The Galle National Museum
Conclusions
References
Part III: Cultural Regions of Memory
Articulations of Memory: Mediation and the Making of Mnemo-Regions
Postnational Memory Studies
Mediation and Cultural Borders
Four Types of Articulation
Wiki-memory
Conclusion
References
Remembering the Violence of (De)colonization in Southern Africa: From Witnessing to Activist Genealogies in Literature and Film
In Search for a Region of Memory: Official vs. Alternative Memoryscapes
Confronting the Violence of the Struggle: Witnessing and Questioning Reconciliation during the 1990 and 2000s
Voices of the “Born Frees”: Postmemory and Genealogies of (De)coloniality
Conclusion
References
Transoceanic Entanglements: Remembering Forced Labor Migration in M.G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust
Kenya Unbound
Transregional Mnemoscapes
Towards a Transoceanic Perspective
References
Afterword: The Discourse of Regions
Index
